The Health Authorities (Establishment and Abolition) (England) Order 2002

Citation, commencement, extent and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Health Authorities (Establishment and Abolition) (England) Order 2002 and shall come into force on 1st April 2002.

(2) This Order extends to England only.

(3) In this Order—

“the Act” means the National Health Service Act 1977;

“Glossop” means the wards of All Saints, Gamesley, St. Andrews, St. Charles, St. James, St. Johns, Simmondley and Tintwistle within the borough of High Peak in the county of Derbyshire;

“local representative committee” means a Local Medical Committee, Local Dental Committee, Local Optical Committee or Local Pharmaceutical Committee recognised under section 44 of the Act(1);

“the material date” means 1st April 2002;

“the new Authorities” means the Health Authorities established by this Order, which are specified in Schedule 1 to this Order;

“the old Authorities” means the Health Authorities specified in column (1) of Schedule 2 to this Order;

“the 1992 Regulations” means the National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunals) Regulations 1992(2);

“relevant health service body” has the same meaning as in section 92(3) of the Act;

“the relevant new Authority” means, in relation to any old Authority specified in column (1) of Schedule 2 to this Order, the new Authority which is specified in column (2) of that Schedule in relation to that old Authority.

(1)

Section 44(A1) and (B1) were inserted by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8), section 11 and Schedule 5; section 1 was amended by the Health and Social Security Act 1984 (c. 48), Schedule 8; the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), section 12(4), and by the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17), Schedule 1, paragraph 32.

(2)

S.I. 1992/664; regulations 3 and 5 were substituted by S.I. 1996/703; regulation 15 was modified by S.I. 1996/971.

(3)

Section 92 was amended by the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17), section 2(1) and Schedule 1, paragraph 44, and by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8), Schedule 4, paragraph 28.