This Order may be cited as the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) and the Pinderfields and Pontefract Hospitals National Health Service Trust and the Dewsbury Health Care National Health Service Trust (Dissolution) Order 2002 and shall come into force on 1st April 2002.

In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—

• “the Act” means the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990;

• “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 National Health Service Act 1977 and any service which he has a duty to provide under section 5(1) or (1A) of that Act5;

• “operational date” has the meaning assigned to it in paragraph 3(1)(e) of Schedule 2 to the Act;

• “the trust” means the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals National Health Service Trust established by article 2 of this Order.