Statutory Instruments
2001 No. 1538
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND
The Lowestoft Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 2001
Made
24th March 2001
Coming into force
1st April 2001
The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 16A(1), (2) and (3) and 126(3) and (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 Lowestoft Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 2001 and shall come into force on 1st April 2001.
Amendment of the Primary Care Trust Establishment Order
2. In the Lowestoft Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Order 2000( 3 )—
(a) in article 4(1), for “6 officer members” there shall be substituted “5 officer members”;
(b) in article 4(3)(c), for “3 persons” there shall be substituted “2 persons”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Hunt
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Health
24th March 2001
1977 c. 49 ; section 16A was inserted by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) (“the 1999 Act”), section 2(1); section 126(3) and (4) was amended by section 65(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”), by paragraph 57 of Schedule 1 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17) (“the 1995 Act”), by section 41(10) of, and paragraph 27 of Schedule 2, the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46) and by section 65(1), of, and paragraph 37 of Schedule 4 to, the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) (“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(c) of, and the entry for the National Health Service Act 1977 in Schedule 1 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999, S.I. 1999/672 , as amended by section 66(5) of the 1999 Act.
See S.I. 1999/2337 .