The Primary Care Trusts (Dissolutions) Order 2003

Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 1066

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND

The Primary Care Trusts (Dissolutions) Order 2003

Made

21st March 2003

Coming into force

1st April 2003

The Secretary of State for Health, in the exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 16A(1) and 126(3) and (4) of the National Health Service Act 1977(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as Primary Care Trusts (Dissolutions) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 1st April 2003.

Dissolution of Primary Care Trusts

2.—(1) Each of the Primary Care Trusts established by the Primary Care Trust Establishment Orders listed in paragraph (2) is dissolved and accordingly their Establishment Orders are revoked.

(2) The Primary Care Trust Establishment Orders referred to in paragraph (1) are—

(a) The Chingford, Wanstead and Woodford Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Order 2001(2);

(b) The Redbridge Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Order 2001(3), and

(c) The Walthamstow, Leyton and Leytonstone Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Order 2001(4).

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

John Hutton

Minister of State,

Department of Health

21st March 2003

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order dissolves on 1st April 2003 the Chingford, Wanstead and Woodford Primary Care Trust, the Redbridge Primary Care Trust and the Walthamstow, Leyton and Leytonstone Primary Care Trust and revokes their respective Establishment Orders. A new Redbridge Primary Care Trust is created by virtue of the Redbridge Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Order 2003.

(1)

1977 c. 49; section 16A was inserted by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) (“the 1999 Act”), section 2(1); section 126(3) was amended by the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46), section 41(10) and Schedule 2, paragraph 27; section 126(4) was amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), section 65(2) and by the 1999 Act (c. 8), Schedule 4, paragraph 37(6).

(2)

S.I. 2001/344.

(3)

S.I. 2001/352.

(4)

S.I. 2001/349.