The Local Health Partnerships National Health Service Trust (Transfer of Trust Property) Order 2003

Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 615

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND

The Local Health Partnerships National Health Service Trust (Transfer of Trust Property) Order 2003

Made

10th March 2003

Laid before Parliament

11th March 2003

Coming into force

1st April 2003

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 92(1) and 126(4) of the National Health Service Act 1977(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, having regard to changes or proposed changes in the administration of Local Health Partnerships National Health Service Trust and having consulted that Trust, the Norfolk Mental Health Care National Health Service Trust, the James Paget Healthcare National Health Service Trust and the Norwich Primary Care Trust in accordance with section 92(3) of that Act, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Local Health Partnerships National Health Service Trust (Transfer of Trust Property) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 1st April 2003.

(2) In this Order—

“the old Trust” means the Local Health Partnerships National Health Service Trust(2);

“the new Trust” means the Norfolk Mental Health Care National Health Service Trust(3), the James Paget Healthcare National Health Service Trust(4) and the Norwich Primary Care Trust(5) as the context requires;

“the trust property” means the property specified in the three schedules of trust property more specifically described in paragraphs (1), (2) and (3) of article 2 of this Order.

Transfer of trust property

2.—(1) On 1st April 2003 the trust property specified in the schedule of trust property prepared and agreed upon by the old Trust and the Norfolk Mental Health Care National Health Service Trust and signed on behalf of the old Trust on 13th and 14th March 2001 and on behalf of the Norfolk Mental Health Care National Health Service Trust on 25th and 29th May 2001, and any rights and liabilities arising from that property(6), shall be transferred from the old Trust to the Norfolk Mental Health Care National Health Service Trust.

(2) On 1st April 2003 the trust property specified in the schedule of trust property prepared and agreed upon by the old Trust and the James Paget Healthcare National Health Service Trust and signed on behalf of the old Trust on 13th and 14th March 2001 and on behalf of the James Paget Healthcare National Health Service Trust on 21st May 2001, and any rights and liabilities arising from that property(7), shall be transferred from the old Trust to the James Paget Healthcare National Health Service Trust.

(3) On 1st April 2003 the trust property specified in the schedule of trust property prepared and agreed upon by the old Trust and the Norwich Primary Care Trust and signed on behalf of the old Trust on 13th and 14th March 2001 and on behalf of the Norwich Primary Care Trust on 10th March 2003 and any rights and liabilities arising from that property(8), shall be transferred from the old Trust to the Norwich Primary Care Trust.

3.—(1) In any trust instrument relating to the trust property, any reference to the name by which the trustees of the trust property are to be known shall be construed as a reference to the relevant new Trust and any reference to the old Trust in the name by which the charitable trust governing the trust property is to be known shall be construed as a reference to the relevant new Trust.

(2) In paragraph (1) of this article references to the relevant new Trust are to be read as references to the new Trust to which the property which is the subject of the trust instrument has been transferred under article 2 of this Order.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Hazel Blears

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Health

10th March 2003

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order transfers to the Norfolk Mental Health Care National Health Service Trust, the James Paget Healthcare National Health Service Trust and the Norwich Primary Care Trust trust property held by the Local Health Partnerships National Health Service Trust and makes related provision. A copy of the schedules specifying the trust property transferred under this Order can be obtained from the Department of Health, Quarry House, Quarry Hill, Leeds LS2 7UE.

(1)

1977 c. 49 (“the 1977 Act”); section 92 was amended by section 11(5) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”), by paragraph 44 of Schedule 1 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17) and by paragraph 28 of Schedule 4 to the Health Act 1999 (c. 8), (“the 1999 Act”); section 126(4) was amended by section 65(2) of the 1990 Act and by paragraph 37(6) of Schedule 4 to the 1999 Act. As regards Wales, the functions of the Secretary of State under the above mentioned powers are transferred to the National Assembly for Wales under article 2(a) of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672) as amended by section 66(5) of the 1999 Act; this Order therefore only extends to England.

(2)

Established by S.I. 1999/851.

(3)

Established by S.I. 1993/2657.

(4)

Established by S.I. 1992/2569 (as amended by S.I. 1997/1724).

(5)

Established by S.I. 2001/385.

(6)

See section 96(1) of the 1977 Act as amended by paragraph 29 of Schedule 4 to the 1999 Act which makes supplementary provision regarding transfers of property under section 92 of that Act.

(7)

See section 96(1) of the 1977 Act as amended by paragraph 29 of Schedule 4 to the 1999 Act which makes supplementary provision regarding transfers of property under section 92 of that Act.

(8)

See section 96(1) of the 1977 Act as amended by paragraph 29 of Schedule 4 to the 1999 Act which makes supplementary provision regarding transfers of property under section 92 of that Act.