Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 2387

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND

The West Suffolk Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 2000

Made

3rd September 2000

Coming into force

13th September 2000

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 and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the West Suffolk Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment 2000 and shall come into force on 13th September 2000.

Amendment of NHS trust establishment Order

2. After article 4 of the West Suffolk Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1992(4) there shall be inserted the following article-

"Significant teaching commitment

4A.-(1) The trust is to be regarded as having a significant teaching commitment by virtue of paragraph 3(1)(d) of Schedule 2 to the Act.

(2) One of the non-executive directors of the trust shall be appointed from the University of Cambridge.".

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Hunt

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Health

3rd September 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the establishment Order of the West Suffolk Hospitals National Health Service Trust, an NHS trust established by Order under Part I of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990, by inserting a new article 4A to provide that the trust is to be regarded as having a significant teaching commitment and that one of the non-executive directors shall be appointed from the University of Cambridge.

(1)

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 "), by section 41(10) and paragraph 27 of Schedule 2 to the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46) and by section 65(1) and paragraph 37 of Schedule 4 to the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) ("the 1999 Act").

(2)

1990 c. 19; section 5 was amended by paragraph 69 of Schedule 1 to the 1995 Act and by section 13 of the 1999 Act.

(3)

See S.I. 1996/653, regulation 2(3).

(4)

S.I. 1992/2565.