The Local Health Boards (Establishment and Dissolution) (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2013

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2013 No. 2918 (W. 286)

National Health Service, Wales

The Local Health Boards (Establishment and Dissolution) (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2013

Made

13 November 2013

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

21 November 2013

Coming into force

12 December 2013

The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 11, 203(9) and (10) and 204 of and paragraphs 11 and 12 of Schedule 2 to the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006(1) make the following Order:

Title and commencement

1.  The title of this Order is the Local Health Boards (Establishment and Dissolution) (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2013 and it comes into force on 12 December 2013.

Amendment to the Local Health Boards (Establishment and Dissolution) (Wales) Order 2009

2.  Schedule 1 to the Local Health Boards (Establishment and Dissolution) (Wales) Order 2009(2) (local health board names and principal local government areas for which they are established) is amended as follows:

(a) for “Aneurin Bevan Local Health Board” (“Bwrdd Iechyd Lleol Aneurin Bevan”) substitute “Aneurin Bevan University Local Health Board” (“Bwrdd Iechyd Lleol Prifysgol Aneurin Bevan”);

(b) for “Cwm Taf Local Health Board” (“Bwrdd Iechyd Lleol Cwm Taf”) substitute “Cwm Taf University Local Health Board” (“Bwrdd Iechyd Lleol Prifysgol Cwm Taf ”); and

(c) for “Hywel Dda Local Health Board” (“Bwrdd Iechyd Lleol Hywel Dda”) substitute “Hywel Dda University Local Health Board” (“Bwrdd Iechyd Lleol Prifysgol Hywel Dda”).

Mark Drakeford

Minister for Health and Social Services, one of the Welsh Ministers

13 November 2013

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Amendment Order amends the Local Health Boards (Establishment and Dissolution) (Wales) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/778 (W.66)) to change the names of Aneurin Bevan Local Health Board, Cwm Taf Local Health Board and Hywel Dda Local Health Board to University Local Health Boards.

The Welsh Ministers’ Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to this Order. As a result, it was not considered necessary to carry out a regulatory impact assessment as to the likely costs and benefits of complying with this Order.

(1)

2006. c.42 .

(2)

S.I. 2009/778 (W.66).