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1999 No. 1823
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND
The Royal Hospital of St. Bartholomew, the Royal London Hospital and London Chest Hospital National Health Service Trust (Change of Name) Order 1999
Made
25th June 1999
Coming into force
8th July 1999
The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 126(3) and (4) of the National Health Service Act 1977(1) and section 5(1) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990(2) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after completion of the consultation prescribed under section 5(2) of the latter Act(3), hereby makes the following Order:
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.-(1) This Order may be cited as the Royal Hospital of St. Bartholomew, the Royal London Hospital and London Chest Hospital National Health Service Trust (Change of Name) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 8th July 1999.
(2) In this Order-“
"the Order" means the Royal Hospital of St. Bartholomew, the Royal London Hospital and London Chest Hospital National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1994(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 Barts and The London National Health Service Trust instead of the Royal Hospital of St. Bartholomew, the Royal London Hospital and London Chest Hospital 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 "Royal Hospital of St. Bartholomew, the Royal London Hospital and London Chest Hospital" there shall be substituted the words "Barts and The London".
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.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
John Denham
Minister of State,
Department of Health
25th June 1999
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 Royal Hospital of St. Bartholomew, the Royal London Hospital and London Chest Hospital National Health Service Trust to the Barts and The London National Health Service Trust, and makes consequential amendments to that Order and transitional provisions.
1977 c. 49; section 126 was amended by section 65(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), by paragraph 57 of Schedule 1 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17) ("the 1995 Act") and by section 41(10) and paragraph 27 of Schedule 2 to the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46).
1990 c. 19; section 5 was amended by paragraph 69 of Schedule 1 to the 1995 Act.
See S.I. 1996/653, regulation 2(3).
S.I. 1994/307.