Statutory Instruments
2000 No. 2553
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND
The Herefordshire Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 2000
Made
19th September 2000
Coming into force
2nd October 2000
The Secretary of State for Health, in the exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 16A(1), (2) and (3) and 126(4) of the National Health Service Act 1977( 1 ) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, following compliance with the consultation requirements contained in regulations made under section 16A(5) of the Act( 2 ), hereby makes the following Order:
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Herefordshire Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 2000 and shall come into force on 2nd October 2000.
Amendment of Establishment Order
2. In the Herefordshire Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Order 2000( 3 )—
(a) in article 1(2), the definition of “community health services” shall be omitted; and
(b)article 8 (exercise of functions) shall be omitted.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Yvette Cooper
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health,
Department of Health
19th September 2000
1977 c. 49 : section 16A was inserted by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) (“the 1999 Act”), section 2(1); section 126(4) was amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”), section 65(2) and by the 1999 Act, Schedule 4, paragraph 37(6). 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 .
See S.I. 1999/2337 .