Statutory Instrument 2002 No. 2617

The Basildon and Thurrock General Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Change of Name) Order 2002

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2002 No. 2617

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND

The Basildon and Thurrock General Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Change of Name) Order 2002

	Made	15th October 2002
	Coming into force	18th October 2002

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 126(3) of the National Health Service Act 1977[1], and by section 5(1) of, and paragraphs 1 and 3 of Schedule 2 to, the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990[2], and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf; hereby makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement, and interpretation
    1. - (1) This Order may be cited as the Basildon and Thurrock General Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Change of Name) Order 2002 and shall come into force on 18th October 2002.

    (2) In this Order - 

"the Establishment Order" means the Basildon and Thurrock General Hospitals National Health Services Trust (Establishment) Order 1991[3]; and

"the trust" means the National Health Service Trust established by the Establishment Order.

Change of name of the Trust
    2.The trust shall be called the Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals National Health Service Trust instead of the Basildon and Thurrock General Hospitals National Health Service Trust, and accordingly - 

(a) in article 1(2) of the Establishment Order, in the definition of "the trust"; and

(b) in article 2 of the Establishment Order;

the word "General" shall be replaced by the word "University".

    3.The change of name effected by article 2 of 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


David Lammy
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health

15th October 2002

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Basildon and Thurrock General Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1991, which established the Basildon and Thurrock General Hospitals National Health Service Trust.

Article 2 of the Order changes the name of the trust from the Basildon and Thurrock General Hospitals Health Service Trust to the Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals National Health Service Trust, and makes consequential amendments to the Establishment Order.

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Notes:

[1] 1977 c. 49 Section 126(3) was amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), section 65(2), and the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46), Schedule 2, paragraph 27.back

[2] 1990 c. 19. Section 5(1) was amended by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) ("the 1999 Act"), section 13(1)(a), (10), and by section 65(2), Schedule 5. Paragraph 3 to Schedule 2 was amended by the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17) Schedule 2, paragraph 85(a); by the 1999 Act, section 13(7), (10); and by Schedule 4, paragraphs 74, 83(1), (2).back

[3] S.I. 1991/2325.back

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