Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.-(1) This Order may be cited as the East Hertfordshire Health NationalHealth Service Trust (Change of Name) Order 1992 and shall come intoforce on 26th August 1992.

(2) In this Order unless the context otherwise requires-

"The Order" means the East Hertfordshire Health National Health Service Trust(Establishment) Order 1991(3); and

"The trust" means the East Hertfordshire Health National Health Service Trustestablished by the Order.

Change of name of NHS trust

2. The trust shall be called the East Hertfordshire National HealthService Trust instead of the East Hertfordshire Health National HealthService Trust and accordingly in the definition of "the trust" in Article 1(2) and in Article 2 of the Order the word "Health" shall be deleted where it occurs after the word "Hertfordshire".

Transitional provisions

3. The change of name under this Order shall not-

(a)affect any right or obligation of any person;

(b)be taken as invalidating any instrument (whether made before, on orafter the day on which this Order comes into force) which refers to thetrust by its previous name,

and all documents and instruments which refer to the trust under itsprevious name shall be construed as referring to it under its new name.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order changes the name of an NHS Trust established by Orderunder Part I of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990from the East Hertfordshire Health National Health Service Trust to theEast Hertfordshire National Health Service Trust and makes consequentialamendments to the Order.