The Hammersmith Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1994

Assistance by health authorities before operational date

7.—(1) The North West Thames Regional Health Authority and the Hammersmith and Queen Charlotte’s Special Health Authority, in accordance with such directions, if any, as the Secretary of State may give under section 17 of the National Health Service Act 1977(1), shall—

(a) until the operational date, make such staff and facilities available to the trust as are required to enable the trust to carry out its limited functions pending the transfer or appointment of staff to or by the trust and the transfer of facilities to the trust;

(b) make available such premises as are required to enable the trust to carry out its limited functions pending the transfer of those premises to the trust;

(c) discharge the liabilities of the trust incurred between the establishment date and the operational date that are of a description specified in paragraph (2) of this article; and

(d) make the scheme under section 6 of the Act for the transfer of staff to the trust.

(2) The liabilities referred to in paragraph (1)(c) of this article are—

(a) liability for the remuneration and travelling or other allowances of the chairman and non-executive directors of the trust;

(b) liability for the travelling or other allowances of the members of committees and sub-committees of the trust who are not also directors of the trust;

(c) liability for the remuneration of persons employed by the trust; and

(d) any other liability which may reasonably be incurred by the trust for the purpose of enabling it to begin to operate satisfactorily with effect from its operational date.

(1)

1977 c. 49; section 17 was substituted by the Health and Social Security Act 1984 (c. 48), Schedule 3, paragraph 2, and amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), sections 3(4) and 12(2).