Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.-(1) This Order may be cited as the Durham County Priority Services National Health Service Trust (Change of Name) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 25th January 1999.

(2) In this Order-

"the Order" means the Durham County Priority Services National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1998(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 County Durham and Darlington Priority Services National Health Service Trust instead of the Durham County Priority 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 "Durham County" there shall be substituted the words "County Durham and Darlington".

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 Durham County Priority Services National Health Service Trust to the County Durham and Darlington Priority Services National Health Service Trust, and makes consequential amendments to that Order and transitional provisions.