Statutory Instrument 1997 No. 1724

The James Paget Hospital National Health Service Trust (Change of Name) Order 1997

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1997 No. 1724

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The James Paget Hospital National Health Service Trust (Change of Name) Order 1997

	Made	18th July 1997
	Coming into force	31st August 1997

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 James Paget Hospital National Health Service Trust (Change of Name) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 31st August 1997.

    (2) In this Order - 

"the Order" means the James Paget Hospital NHS Trust (Establishment) Order 1992[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 James Paget Healthcare National Health Service Trust instead of the James Paget 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 "James Paget Hospital" there shall be substituted the words "James Paget Healthcare".

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.


Alan Milburn
Minister of State, Department of Health

18th July 1997

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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 James Paget Hospital National Health Service Trust to the James Paget Healthcare National Health Service Trust, and makes consequential amendments to that Order and transitional provisions.

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Notes:

[1] 1977 c.49; section 126 was amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c.19), section 65(2), and by the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c.17), paragraph 57 of Schedule 1.back

[2] 1990 c.19; section 5 was amended by paragraph 69 of Schedule 1 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c.17).back

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

[4] S.I. 1992/2569.back

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