Statutory Instrument 2003 No. 2944

The Plymouth Primary Care Trust (Change of Name) Amendment Order 2003

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2003 No. 2944

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND

The Plymouth Primary Care Trust (Change of Name) Amendment Order 2003

	Made	13th November 2003
	Coming into force	8th December 2003

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 16A(1) and (2) and 126(3) of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 5A to, the National Health Service Act 1977[1], 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 Plymouth Primary Care Trust (Change of Name) Amendment Order 2003 and shall come into force on 8th December 2003.

    (2) In this Order - 

"the Establishment Order" means the Plymouth Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Order 2001[2]; and

"the trust" means the Primary Care Trust established by the Establishment Order.

Change of name of the trust
    2.The trust shall be called the Plymouth Teaching Primary Care Trust instead of the Plymouth Primary Care Trust, and accordingly - 

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

(b) in article 2 of the Establishment Order (establishment and name of the Primary Care Trust),

"Plymouth" shall be replaced by "Plymouth Teaching".

    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


John Hutton,
Minister of State, Department of Health

13th November 2003

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Plymouth Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Order 2001, which established the Plymouth Primary Care Trust.

Article 2 of the Order changes the name of the trust from the Plymouth Primary Care Trust to the Plymouth Teaching Primary Care Trust, and makes consequential amendments to the Establishment Order.

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Notes:

[1] 1977 c. 49; section 16A was inserted by section 2(1) of the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) ("the 1999 Act"), section 16A(1) was substituted for section 16A(1) as originally enacted by section 2(1) and (2) of the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c. 17); section 126(3) was amended by section 65(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), paragraph 57 of Schedule 1 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17) and section 41(10) of, and paragraph 27 of Schedule 2 to, the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46); paragraph 1 of Schedule 5A was inserted by section 2(2) of the 1999 Act. The functions of the Secretary of State under these provisions are, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2(a) of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999, S.I. 1999/672, as amended by section 66(5) of the 1999 Act.back

[2] S.I. 2001/465.back

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