The East Sussex Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) and the Eastbourne Hospitals National Health Service Trust and Hastings and Rother National Health Service Trust (Dissolution) Amendment Order 2003

Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 1063

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND

The East Sussex Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) and the Eastbourne Hospitals National Health Service Trust and Hastings and Rother National Health Service Trust (Dissolution) Amendment Order 2003

Made

24th March 2003

Coming into force

1st April 2003

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 126(3) of the National Health Service Act 1977(1), and by section 5(1) of, and paragraphs 1 and 3 of Schedule 2 to, the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990(2), hereby makes the following order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This order may be cited as the East Sussex Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) and the Eastbourne Hospitals National Health Service Trust and Hastings and Rother National Health Service Trust (Dissolution) Amendment Order 2003 and shall come into force on the 1st April 2003.

(2) In this Order—

“the Establishment Order” means the East Sussex Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) and the Eastbourne Hospitals National Health Service Trust and Hastings and Rother National Health Service Trust (Dissolution) Order 2002(3).

Amendment to East Sussex Hospitals National Health Service Trust Establishment Order

2.  In article 3 of the Establishment Order, in paragraph (2), the words “Bexhill Hospital,” shall be omitted.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Hazel Blears

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Health

24th March 2003

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the East Sussex Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) and the Eastbourne Hospitals National Health Service Trust and Hastings and Rother National Health Service Trust (Dissolution) Order 2002.

Article 2 excludes Bexhill Hospital from the premises at or from which the East Sussex Hospitals National Health Service Trust provides health services.

This Order does not impose a charge on businesses.

(1)

1977 c. 49 (“the 1977 Act”). Section 126(3) was amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”), s65(2), and the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46), Schedule 2, paragraph 27.

(2)

1990 c. 19. Section 5(1) was amended by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) (“the 1999 Act”), section 13(1)(a) and (10), and by section 65(2) and Schedule 5. Paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 was amended by the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17) (“the 1995 Act”), section 2(1) and Schedule 1, paragraph 85(a); by the 1999 Act, section 13(7) and (10), and Schedule 4, paragraphs 74, 83(1), (2).

(3)

S.I.2003/216.