This Order may be cited as the Northgate and Prudhoe National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1994 and shall come into force on 1st April 1994.

In this Order unless the context otherwise requires–

• “the Act” means the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990;

• “community health services” means any services which the Secretary of State may provide under section 3(1)(d) or (e) of, or Schedule 1 to, the National Health Service Act 1977 and any service which she has a duty to provide under section 5(1) or (1A) of that Act2;

• “establishment date” means 1st April 1994;

• “operational date” has the meaning assigned to it in paragraph 3(1)(e) of Schedule 2 to the Act;

• “the trust” means the Northgate and Prudhoe National Health Service Trust established by article 2 of this Order.