Statutory Instruments
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND
Made
21st March 2003
Coming into force
1st April 2003
The Secretary of State for Health, in the exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 16A(1), (2) and (3) and 126(4) of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 5A to, 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 the Act(2), hereby makes the following Order:
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Waltham Forest Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 1st April 2003.
(2) In this Order—
“operational date” is to be construed in accordance with paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 5A to the National Health Service Act 1977;
“the trust” means the Waltham Forest Primary Care Trust established by article 2 of this Order.
2.—(1) There is hereby established a Primary Care Trust to be called the Waltham Forest Primary Care Trust.
(2) The operational date of the trust shall be 1st April 2003.
3. The trust shall be established for the area specified in the Schedule to this Order.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
John Hutton
Minister of State,
Department of Health
21st March 2003
Article 3
The London Borough of Waltham Forest
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order establishes the Waltham Forest Primary Care Trust (“the trust”), as provided for under section 16A of the National Health Service Act 1977. It specifies the trust’s establishment and operational dates (article 2) and the area for which it is established (article 3 and the Schedule).
1977 c. 49; section 16A was inserted by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) (“the 1999 Act”), section 2(1) and subsection (1A) was inserted by the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c. 17); 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.
See S.I. 1999/2337.