2003 No. 2662
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND

The Portsmouth City Primary Care Trust (Change of Name) 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 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 Portsmouth City Primary Care Trust (Change of Name) Amendment Order 2003 and shall come into force on 4th November 2003.

(2)

In this Order—

“the Establishment Order” means the Portsmouth City Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Order 20012; 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 Portsmouth City Teaching Primary Care Trust instead of the Portsmouth City 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),

  • “Portsmouth City” shall be replaced by “Portsmouth City Teaching”.

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.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

John Hutton
Minister of State,
Department of Health
(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Portsmouth City Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Order 2001, which established the Portsmouth City Primary Care Trust.

Article 2 of the Order changes the name of the trust from the Portsmouth City Primary Care Trust to the Portsmouth City Teaching Primary Care Trust, and makes consequential amendments to the Establishment Order.