1 Citation, commencement and interpretation
1 This Order may be cited as the Hillingdon Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 11th February 2000.
2 In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—
“the Act” means the National Health Service Act 1977;
“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 Act and any service which he has a duty to provide under section 5(1) or (1A) of the Act;
“establishment date” means the date of coming into force of this Order;
“Executive Committee” has the meaning given in regulation 1(2) of the Membership Regulations;
“member”, “officer member” and “non-officer member” have the meanings given in regulation 1(2) of the Membership Regulations;
“Membership Regulations” means the Primary Care Trusts (Membership, Procedure and Administration Arrangements) Regulations 2000;
“operational date” is to be construed in accordance with paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 5A to the Act;
“preparatory period” is to be construed in accordance with paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 5A to the Act;
“the trust” means the Hillingdon Primary Care Trust established by article 2 of this Order.
Section 5(1) was amended by the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49) (“the 1988 Act”), Schedule 3; section 5(1A) and (1B) was inserted by the 1988 Act, section 10(1); Schedule 1 was amended by the 1988 Act, Schedule 2, paragraph 7 and the Education Act 1996 (c. 56), Schedule 37, paragraph 46.
S.I. 2000/89.