1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the West Midlands Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 2006 and shall come into force on 1st July 2006.
(2) In this Order—
“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 she has a duty to provide under section 5(1) of that Act(1);
“operational date” has the meaning assigned to it in paragraph 3(1)(e) of Schedule 2 to the Act; and
“the trust” means the West Midlands Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust established by article 2 of this Order.
1977 c. 49; Schedule 1 was amended by section 25(1) of, and paragraphs 1 and 7 of Schedule 2 to, the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49) (“the 1988 Act”); section 582(1) of, and paragraph 46 of Part 1 of Schedule 37 to, the Education Act 1996 (c. 56); by section 140(1) of, and paragraph 8 of Schedule 30 to, the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (c. 31) (“the 1998 Act”), and by section 196 of, and Part 4 of Schedule 14 to, the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c. 43); section 5(1) was amended by sections 10(1) and 25(2) of, and Schedule 3 to, the 1988 Act; section 237(1) of, and paragraph 20 of Part 1 of Schedule 12 to, the Education Reform Act 1988(c. 40) and by section 140(3) of, and Schedule 31 to, the 1998 Act.