(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order establishes on 1st April 1999 Local Health Partnerships National Health Service Trust (“the new trust”), an NHS trust provided for in section 5 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990. It also provides for the functions of the new trust (article 3). It specifies the number of executive and non-executive directors of the new trust (article 4), its operational date (the date on which the new trust assumes all its functions) and its accounting date (article 5), and the value above which assets cannot be disposed of without the Secretary of State’s consent (article 6).
The new trust replaces:
the Allington National Health Service Trust,
the East Suffolk Local Health Services National Health Service Trust, and
the Mid Anglia Community Health National Health Service Trust.
This Order should be read in conjunction with the Allington, the East Suffolk Local Health Services and the Mid Anglia Community Health National Health Service Trusts (Dissolution) Order 1999(1).
S.I. 1999/850.