Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.-(1) This Order may be cited as the Southend Health Care Services National Health Service Trust (Change of Name) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 19th December 1997.

(2) In this Order-

"the Order" means the Southend Health Care Services NHS Trust (Establishment) Order 1990(4);

"the trust" means the National Health Service trust established by the order.

Change of name of NHS trust

2. The trust shall be called the Southend Hospital National Health Service Trust instead of the Southend Health Care Services National Health Service Trust, and accordingly in Article 1 of the Order in the definition of "the trust", and in Article 2 of the Order, for the words "Southend Health Care Services" there shall be substituted the words "Southend Hospital".

Transitional provisions

3. The change of name under this Order shall not-

(a)affect any right or obligation of any person; or

(b)be taken as invalidating any instrument (whether made before, on or after the day on which this Order comes into force) which refers to the trust by its previous name; and all instruments and other documents which refer to the trust under its previous name shall be construed as referring to it under its new name.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order changes the name of an NHS trust established by Order under Part I of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 from the Southend Health Care Services National Health Service Trust to the Southend Hospital National Health Service Trust, and makes consequential amendments to that Order and transitional provisions.