The Middlesbrough Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 2006

Statutory Instruments

2006 No. 2074

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND

The Middlesbrough Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 2006

Made

24th July 2006

Coming into force

1st October 2006

The Secretary of State for Health makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 16A(1), (2) and (3) and section 126(3) and (4) of the National Health Service Act 1977(1). She is satisfied that consultation has taken place in accordance with regulations made under section 16A(5) of that Act(2).

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Middlesbrough Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 2006 and shall come into force on 1st October 2006.

(2) In this Order “Principal Order” means the Middlesbrough Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Order 2002(3).

Amendment of Schedule to the Principal Order

2.  For the Schedule to the Principal Order, there is substituted the following Schedule—

Article 3

“SCHEDULE AREA OF TRUST

The county of Middlesbrough.”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Norman Warner

Minister of State

Department of Health

24th July 2006

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the establishment order of the Middlesbrough Primary Care Trust (“the trust”). The trust is a Primary Care Trust established under section 16A of the National Health Service Act 1977. This Order substitutes a new Schedule for the Schedule to the establishment order, to reduce the area of the trust so that it covers the county of Middlesbrough. The areas which are no longer covered by the trust are to be covered by the Redcar and Cleveland Primary Care Trust, which is to be established on 1st October 2006 by S.I. 2006/2072.

A full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this Order as it has no impact on the costs of business, charities or voluntary bodies.

(1)

1977 c. 49; section 16A was inserted by section 2(1) of the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) (“the 1999 Act”) and amended by sections 2(1), (2) and (3) of the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c. 17) (“the 2002 Act”); section 126(3) was amended by section 41(10) of, and paragraph 27 of Schedule 2 to, the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46) and section 65(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”); section 126(4) was amended by section 65(2) of the 1990 Act, section 65(1) of, and paragraphs 4 and 37(1) and (6) of Schedule 4 to, the 1999 Act, section 67(1) of, and paragraphs 5(1) and (13)(b) of Schedule 5 to, the Health and Social Care Act 2001 (c. 15), sections 6(3)(c) and 37(1) of, and paragraphs 1 and 10(a) of Schedule 8 to, the 2002 Act and sections 184 and 196 of, and paragraphs 7 and 38 of Schedule 11 and Part 4 of Schedule 14 to, the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c. 43).

(2)

The Primary Care Trusts (Consultation on Establishment, Dissolution and Transfer of Staff) Regulations 1999/2337, as amended by S.I. 2001/3788, 2002/880, 2002/2469, 2004/696, 2004/865, 2004/1771, 2005/848 and 2006/562.

(3)

S.I. 2002/138, as amended by S.I. 2002/1405 and S.I. 2004/543.