Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the North Durham Acute Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1996, and shall come into force on 6th April 1996.

Amendment of Establishment Order

2. In Article 3 of the North Durham Acute Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1993(3) (functions of the trust)-

(a)in paragraph (1) for "section 5(1)(a)" there shall be substituted "section 5(1)(b)"; and

(b)in paragraph (2) for "own and manage" there shall be substituted "provide and manage".

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Order which established the North Durham Acute Hospitals National Health Service Trust to alter the purpose for which the trust has been established and to amend its functions. (The trust has, in exercise of its existing functions, assumed responsibility for the ownership and management of the Dryburn Hospital, Durham and associated hospitals, previously managed by the former North Durham Health Authority.)

This Order confers on the trust the purpose specified in section 5(1)(b) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990-to provide and manage hospitals or other establishments or facilities-and amends the trust's functions so that it is no longer required to own the premises at which it is to provide hospital accommodation and services.