The South Birmingham Community Health National Health Service Trust (Change of Name) Order 1994

Statutory Instruments

1994 No. 798

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The South Birmingham Community Health National Health Service Trust (Change of Name) Order 1994

Made

17th March 1994

Coming into force

1st April 1994

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on her by section 126(3) and (4) of the National Health Service Act 1977(1) and section 5(1) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990(2) and of all other powers enabling her in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the South Birmingham Community Health National Health Service Trust (Change of Name) Order 1994 and shall come into force on 1st April 1994.

(2) In this Order—

“the Order” means the South Birmingham Community Health National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1993(3);

“the Trust” means the National Health Service trust established by the Order.

Change of name of NHS trust

2.  The Trust shall be called the Southern Birmingham Community Health National Health Service Trust instead of the South Birmingham Community Health National Health Service Trust, and accordingly in the definition of “the trust” in article 1(2), and in article 2 of the Order for the word “South” there shall be substituted the word “Southern”.

Transitional provisions

3.  The change of name under this Order shall not—

(a) affect any right or obligation of any person; or

(b) be taken as invalidating any instrument (whether made before, on or after the day on which this Order comes into force) which refers to the Trust by its previous name,

and all documents and instruments which refer to the Trust under its previous name shall be construed as referring to it under its new name.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Tom Sackville

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Health

17th March 1994

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order changes the name of an NHS trust established by Order under Part I of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 from the South Birmingham Community Health National Health Service Trust to the Southern Birmingham Community Health National Health Service Trust, and makes consequential amendments to that Order, and transitional provisions.

(1)

1977 c. 49; section 126(3) and (4) was amended by section 65(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19).

(2)

1990 c. 19.

(3)

S.I. 1993/2543.