The Wigan and Leigh Health Services National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1999 No. 2307


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1999 No. 2307

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND

The Wigan and Leigh Health Services National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1999

Made

12th August 1999

Coming into force

24th August 1999

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 126(3) of the National Health Service Act 1977(1) and section 5(1) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990(2) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after completion of the consultation prescribed under section 5(2) of the latter Act(3), considering it appropriate that the functions of the trust should include functions in relation to the provision of services for one or more Health Authorities(4), hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Wigan and Leigh Health Services National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1999 and shall come into force on 24th August 1999.

Amendment of NHS Trust Establishment Order

2. For article 3 of the Wigan and Leigh Health Services National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1992(5) there shall be substituted the following article-�

"Nature and functions of the trust

3.-(1) The trust is established for the purposes specified in section 5(1)(b) of the Act.

(2) The trust's functions shall be to provide and manage hospitals, establishments and facilities in the area of Wigan and Bolton Health Authority, and there to provide and manage hospital accommodation and services, and there and from there to provide and manage community health services.".

Frank Dobson

Secretary of State for Health

12th August 1999

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Order ("the Establishment Order") which established the Wigan and Leigh Health Services National Health Service Trust.

The Establishment Order is amended to confer on the trust the purposes specified in section 5(1)(b) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 to provide and manage hospitals, establishments and facilities in the area of Wigan and Bolton Health Authority.

(1)

1977 c. 49; section 126(3) was amended by section 65(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) ("the 1990 Act") and by paragraph 57 of Schedule 1 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17) ("the 1995 Act") and by section 41(10) and paragraph 27 of Schedule 2 to the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46).

(2)

1990 c. 19; section 5 was amended by paragraph 69 of Schedule 1 to the 1995 Act.

(3)

See S.I. 1996/653, regulation 2(2).

(4)

See section 5(6) of the 1990 Act.

(5)

S.I. 1992/2467.


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