1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the National Health Service (Determination of Regions) Order 1994 and shall come into force on 1st April 1994.
(2) In this Order—
“the Act” means the National Health Service Act 1977;
“the material date” means 1st April 1994;
“the new authorities” means the Regional Health Authorities specified in column (2) of Schedule 2 to the National Health Service (Regional Health Authorities) Order 1994(1) being in each case an authority established by that Order;
“the old authorities” means the Regional Health Authorities specified in Schedule 1 to that Order, being in each case an authority abolished by that Order;
“the relevant new authority” means—
as respects any old authority specified in column (1) of Part I of Schedule 1 to this Order, the new authority which is specified in column (2) of that Part in relation to that old authority;
as respects each of the old authorities referred to in Part II of that Schedule, the new authority which is determined, in accordance with that Part, to be the relevant new authority in relation to that old authority.
(3) In Schedule 3 to this Order (National Health Service regions)—
(a)references in column (3) to the area of a former borough are references to such an area as existing immediately before 1st April 1974; and
(b)references in that column to other local government areas are references to such areas as determined under the Local Government Act 1972(2) on 1st August 1981, and no account shall be taken for the purposes of that Schedule of any subsequent change effected under that Act in the boundaries of those areas.