Statutory Instruments
National Health Service, England
Made
7th January 2013
Coming into force
1st February 2013
The Secretary of State for Health makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 25(1), 272(7) and 273(1) of, and paragraph 28(1) of Schedule 4 to, the National Health Service Act 2006(1).
The Secretary of State for Health makes this Order on the application of the Great Western Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust, following the consultation prescribed under paragraph 28(3) of Schedule 4 to that Act(2).
1. This Order may be cited as the Great Western Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust (Dissolution) Order 2013 and comes into force on 1st February 2013.
2.-(1) The Great Western Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust is dissolved.
(2) The Great Western Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust (Establishment) and the Avon Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust, the Gloucestershire Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust and the Wiltshire Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust (Dissolution) Order 2006(3) is revoked.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.
Earl Howe
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of Health
7th January 2013
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order provides for the dissolution on 1st February 2013 of the Great Western Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust established on 1st April 2006 and revokes the Great Western Ambulance National Health Service Trust (Establishment) and the Avon Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust, the Gloucestershire Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust and the Wiltshire Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust (Dissolution) Order 2006 that established the trust.
2006 c.41. Section 179(2) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c.7) provides for the repeal of section 25 of the National Health Service Act 2006 (subsection (4) of which gives Schedule 4 effect) but these provisions are not yet in force.
See S.I. 2010/743. No consultation is prescribed under section 25(3) of the National Health Service Act 2006 with regard to an order revoking an NHS trust order.