2003 No. 2168
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND

The Bexley Primary Care Trust (Change of Name) and (Establishment) Amendment Order 2003

Made
Coming into force
The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 16A(1) and (2) and 126(3) of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 5A to, the National Health Service Act 19771 and section 45 of the Health and Social Care Act 20012, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf hereby makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Bexley Primary Care Trust (Change of Name) and (Establishment) Amendment Order 2003 and shall come into force on 1st October 2003.

(2)

In this Order—

“the Establishment Order” means the Bexley Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Order 20003; and

“the trust” means the Primary Care Trust established by the Establishment Order.

Change of name of the trust

2.

The trust shall be called the Bexley Care Trust instead of the Bexley Primary Care Trust, and accordingly—

(a)

in article 1(2) of the Establishment Order (citation, commencement and interpretation), in the definition of “the trust”; and

(b)

in article 2 of the Establishment Order (establishment and name of the Primary Care Trust),

  • “Bexley Primary Care Trust” shall be replaced by “Bexley Care Trust”.

3.

The change of name effected by article 2 of this Order 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 referring to it under its new name.

Designation as a Care Trust

4.

In article 2 of the Establishment Order (establishment and name of the Primary Care Trust) there shall be added the following paragraph—

“(2)

The trust is designated as a Care Trust.”

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Stephen Ladyman
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department of Health
(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Bexley Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Order 2000, which established the Bexley Primary Care Trust.

Article 2 of the Order changes the name of the trust from the Bexley Primary Care Trust to the Bexley Care Trust, and makes consequential amendments to the Establishment Order. Article 4 designates the trust as a Care Trust, as provided for in section 45 of the Health and Social Care Act 2001.