Explanatory note

This Order establishes the Public Health Wales National Health Service Trust, an NHS trust provided for in section 18 of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006. It also provides for the functions of the trust both before (article 6) and after (article 3) its operational date (the date on which it assumes all its functions) and it specifies the number of the directors of the trust (article 4) and the operational date and the accounting date of the trust (article 5).