The Teddington, Twickenham and Hamptons Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Amendment and Change of Name Order 2002

Statutory Instruments

2002 No. 1008

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND

The Teddington, Twickenham and Hamptons Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Amendment and Change of Name Order 2002

Made

20th March 2002

Coming into force

1st April 2002

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 16A(1), (2) and (3) and 126(3) and (4) of the National Health Service Act 1977(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, following compliance with the consultation requirements contained in regulations made under section 16A(5) of that Act(2), hereby makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Teddington, Twickenham and Hamptons Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Amendment and Change of Name Order 2002 and shall come into force on 1st April 2002.

(2) In this Order “the Order” means the Teddington, Twickenham and Hamptons Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Order 2001(3);

and “the trust” means the trust established by the Order.

Change of name of Primary Care Trust and transitional provisions

2.—(1) The trust shall be called the Richmond and Twickenham Primary Care Trust instead of the Teddington, Twickenham and Hamptons Primary Care Trust, and accordingly in article 1 of the Order in the definition of “the trust”, and in article 2 of the Order, for the words “Teddington, Twickenham and Hamptons” there shall be substituted the words “Richmond and Twickenham”.

(2) The change of name effected by paragraph (1) shall not—

(a) affect any right or obligation of any person; or

(b) be taken as invalidating any instrument (whether made before, on or after the day on which this Order comes into force) which refers to the trust by its previous name;

and all instruments and other documents which refer to the trust under its previous name shall be construed as if referring to it under its new name.

Further Amendments of the Primary Care Trust Establishment Order

3.—(1) The Order shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs.

(2) In article 4—

(a) in paragraph (1) for “5” in both places where it occurs there shall be substituted “6”; and

(b) in paragraph (3)(c) for “2” there shall be substituted “3”.

(3) For the Schedule, there shall be substituted the following Schedule—

Article 3

“SCHEDULE AREA OF TRUST

In the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames—

• the electoral wards of Barnes, Central Twickenham, East Sheen, East Twickenham, Ham and Petersham, Hampton, Hampton Hill, Hampton Nursery, Hampton Wick, Heathfield, Kew, Mortlake, Palewell, Richmond Town, South Twickenham, Teddington, West Twickenham, Whitton.”

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

John Hutton

Minister of State,

Department of Health

20th March 2002

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the establishment Order of the Teddington, Twickenham and Hamptons Primary Care Trust (“the trust”), a Primary Care Trust established by Order under section 16A of the National Health Service Act 1977 by increasing from 5 to 6 the number of officer members, and by increasing from 5 to 6 the number of non-officer members.

Article 2 of the Order changes the name of the trust to the Richmond and Twickenham Primary Care Trust.

Article 3 substitutes a new Schedule which specifies the area for which the trust is established.

(1)

1977 c. 49; section 16A was inserted by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) (“the 1999 Act”), section 2(1); section 126(3) and (4) was amended by section 65(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”), by paragraph 57 of Schedule 1 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17) (“the 1995 Act”), by section 41(10) of, and paragraph 27 of Schedule 2 to, the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46) and by section 65(1), of, and paragraph 37 of Schedule 4 to, the 1999 Act. The functions of the Secretary of State under these provisions are, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2(a) of, and the entry for the National Health Service Act 1977 in Schedule 1 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999, S.I. 1999/672, as amended by section 66(5) of the 1999 Act.

(2)

See S.I. 1999/2337.

(3)

S.I. 2001/278.