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1999 No. 632
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES
The St. Helens and Knowsley Hospital Services National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1999
Made
8th March 1999
Coming into force
22nd March 1999
The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 126(3) 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), considering it appropriate that the functions of the trust should include functions in relation to the provision of services for one or more Health Authorities(4), hereby makes the following Order:
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.-(1) This Order may be cited as the St. Helens and Knowsley Hospital Services National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1999 and shall come into force on 22nd March 1999.
(2) In this Order, "the Establishment Order" means the St. Helens and Knowsley Hospital Services National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1990(5).
Amendment of NHS trust Establishment Order
2.-(1) In article 1(2) of the Establishment Order (interpretation), the following definition shall be inserted:-“
""community health services" means any services which the Secretary of State may provide under section 3(1)(d) or (e) of or Schedule 1 to the National Health Service Act 1977 and any service which he has a duty to provide under section 5(1) or (1A) of that Act(6)".
(2) For article 3 of the Establishment Order (functions of the trust) there shall be substituted the following:-“
"Nature and functions of the Trust
3.-(1) The trust is established for the purposes specified in section 5(1) of the Act.
(2) The trust's functions shall be:-“
(a)to own and manage pursuant to section 5(1)(a) of the Act the Whiston Hospital, Warrington Road, Whiston, Prescot L35 5DR and associated hospitals, establishments and facilities, and there to provide and manage hospital accommodation and services, and there and from there to provide and manage community health services; and
(b)to provide and manage pursuant to section 5(1)(b) of the Act Peasley Cross Unit, Marshalls Cross Road, St. Helens, Merseyside WA9 3DA, and there to provide and manage hospital accommodation and services.".
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.
John Denham
Minister of State,
Department of Health
8th March 1999
Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the Order ("the Establishment Order") which established the St. Helens and Knowsley Hospital Services National Health Service Trust.
The Establishment Order is amended to confer on the trust the function of providing and managing community health services and to confer on it the purpose specified in section 5(1)(b) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 to provide and manage Peasley Cross Unit, Marshalls Cross Road, St. Helens, Merseyside WA9 3DA.
1977 c. 49; section 126(3) was amended by section 65(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) ("the 1990 Act") and 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(2).
See section 5(6) of the 1990 Act.
S.I. 1990/2446.
1977 c. 49; section 5 was amended by and section 5(1A) inserted by the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49) section 10(1); Schedule 1 was amended by the Education Act 1980 (c. 20), Schedule 1, and the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49), Schedule 2, paragraph 7.