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Statutory Instruments

2007 No. 2756

National Health Service, England

The Staffordshire Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust (Dissolution) Order 2007

Made

18th September 2007

Coming into force

1st October 2007

The Secretary of State for Health makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 273(1) of, and paragraph 28(1) of Schedule 4 to, the National Health Service Act 2006(1).

The Secretary of State for Health considers it appropriate in the interests of the health service to dissolve the Staffordshire Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust and has completed the consultation prescribed under paragraph 28(3) of Schedule 4 to the National Health Service Act 2006(2).

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Staffordshire Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust (Dissolution) Order 2007 and shall come into force on 1st October 2007.

Dissolution of NHS trust

2.  The Staffordshire Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust established by the Staffordshire Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1991(3) is dissolved, and accordingly that Order, and the Staffordshire Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1997(4), are revoked.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Ann Keen

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department of Health

18th September 2007

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order provides for the dissolution on 1st October 2007 of the Staffordshire Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust, which was established on 1st November 1991.

(2)

See the National Health Service Trusts (Consultation on Establishment and Dissolution) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/653, as amended by S.I. 2001/3788), which were made under paragraph 29(3) of Schedule 2 to the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“1990 Act”). That paragraph of Schedule 2 to the 1990 Act was re-enacted by paragraph 28(3) of Schedule 4 to the National Health Service Act 2006 (“2006 Act”) and repealed by section 6 of, and Schedule 4 to, the National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43). Section 4 of, and paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 2 to, that Act provide that subordinate legislation made under any repealed and re-enacted provision of the 1990 Act has effect as if made under the corresponding provision of the 2006 Act.