Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 4117

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND

The Southern Norfolk Primary Care Trust (Establishment) (Amendment) Order 2001

Made

19th December 2001

Coming into force

1st January 2002

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 16A(1), (2) and (3) and 126(3) and (4) of the National Health Service Act 1977(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, following compliance with the consultation requirements contained in regulations made under section 16A(5) of that Act(2), hereby makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Southern Norfolk Primary Care Trust (Establishment) (Amendment) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 1st January 2002.

(2) In this Order “the Order” means the Southern Norfolk Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Order 2000(3);

and “the trust” means the trust established by the Order.

Amendment of the Primary Care Trust Establishment Order

2.—(1) The Order shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs.

(2) In the Schedule, in the entry for the District of South Norfolk there shall be deleted—

(a)after “Diss Town”, “Ditchingham”;

(b)after “Long Row”, “Marshland”;

(c)after “Valley”, “Waveney”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Hunt

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Health

19th December 2001

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the establishment order of the Southern Norfolk Primary Care Trust (“the trust”), a Primary Care Trust established by Order under section 16A of the National Health Service Act 1977.

Article 2 amends the establishment order by making changes to the area in which the trust is to undertake its functions.

(1)

1977 c. 49; section 16A was inserted by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) (“the 1999 Act”), section 2(1); section 126(4) was amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”), section 65(2) and by the 1999 Act, Schedule 4, paragraph 37(6); Schedule 5A was inserted by the 1999 Act, Schedule 1. The functions of the Secretary of State under these provisions are, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2(a) of, and the entry for the National Health Service Act 1977 in Schedule 1 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999, S.I. 1999/672, as amended by section 66(5) of the 1999 Act.