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The Herefordshire Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 2000

S.I. 2000/2553 · Made 19 September 2000

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NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND

Made 19th September 2000

Coming into force 2nd October 2000

The Secretary of State for Health, in the exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 16A(1), (2) and (3) and 126(4) of the National Health Service Act 1977f1 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, following compliance with the consultation requirements contained in regulations made under section 16A(5) of the Actf2, hereby makes the following Order:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1977 c. 49: section 16A was inserted by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) (“the 1999 Act”), section 2(1); section 126(4) was amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”), section 65(2) and by the 1999 Act, Schedule 4, paragraph 37(6). The functions of the Secretary of State under these provisions are, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2(a) of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999, S.I. 1999/672.

f2

See S.I. 1999/2337.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Amendment of Establishment Order
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Herefordshire Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 2000 and shall come into force on 2nd October 2000.

2Amendment of Establishment Order

In the Herefordshire Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Order 2000f1—

(a)

in article 1(2), the definition of “community health services” shall be omitted; and

(b)

article 8 (exercise of functions) shall be omitted.

Signature

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Yvette Cooper

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health,

Department of Health

19th September 2000

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the establishment order (“the Order”) of the Herefordshire Primary Care Trust (“the trust”), a Primary Care Trust established by Order under section 16A of the National Health Service Act 1977 (“the Act”) by removing the restriction in article 8 of the Order whereby, in the exercise of functions, the trust shall not provide services directly to patients, other than community health services.