2006 No. 2073

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND

The Medway Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 2006

Made

Coming into force

The Secretary of State for Health makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 16A(1), (2) and (3) and section 126(3) and (4) of the National Health Service Act 19771. She is satisfied that consultation has taken place in accordance with regulations made under section 16A(5) of that Act2.

Citation, commencement and interpretation1

1

This Order may be cited as the Medway Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 2006 and shall come into force on 1st October 2006.

2

In this Order “Principal Order” means the Medway Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Order 20023.

Amendment of Schedule to the Principal Order2

For the Schedule to the Principal Order, there is substituted the following Schedule—

SCHEDULEAREA OF TRUST

Article 3

The county of Medway.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Norman WarnerMinister of StateDepartment of Health

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the establishment order of the Medway Primary Care Trust (“the trust”). The trust is a Primary Care Trust established under section 16A of the National Health Service Act 1977. This Order substitutes a new Schedule for the Schedule to the establishment order, to reduce the area of the trust so that it covers the county of Medway. The areas which are no longer covered by the trust are to be covered by the West Kent Primary Care Trust and the Eastern and Coastal Kent Primary Care Trust, which are to be established on 1st October 2006 by S.I. 2006/2072.

A full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this Order as it has no impact on the costs of business, charities or voluntary bodies.