Citation, commencement, interpretation and extent

1. —(1) This order may be cited as the Rampton Hospital Authority (Abolition) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 1st April 2001.

(2) In this Order—

“the Act” means the National Health Service Act 1977;

“the Authority” means the Rampton HospitalAuthority established by the Authorities for the Ashworth, Broadmoor and Rampton Hospitals (Establishment and Constitution) Order 1996( 2 );

“the Trust” means the Nottinghamshire Healthcare National Health ServiceTrust( 3 );

(3) This Order extends to England and Wales( 4 ).

Abolition of the Authority and amendment of Order and Regulations

2. The Authority is hereby abolished and—

(a) the Authorities for the Ashworth, Broadmoor and Rampton (Establishment and Constitution) Order 1996 is amended by omitting the entry in the Schedule relating to the Rampton HospitalAuthority, and

(b) the Ashworth, Broadmoor and Rampton HospitalAuthorities (Functions and Membership) Regulations are amended by omitting “Rampton” from the definition of “the hospitals” in regulation 1(2)( 5 ).

Transfer of Staff

3. —(1) Subject to paragraph (2), any person who, immediately before the coming into force of this Order, was an officer of the Authority shall, on the coming into force of this Order, be transferred to the employment of the Trust.

(2) This regulation shall not apply to an officer of the Authority whose contract of employment terminates on the day immediately proceeding the coming into force of this Order.

(3) The contract of employment of an officer transferred under paragraph (1)—

(a) is not terminated by the transfer, and

(b) has effect from the time of the transfer as if originally made between the officer and the Trust.

(4) Without prejudice to paragraph (3)—

(a) any right or liability of the Authority under or in connection with the officer’s contract of employment shall by virtue of this paragraph be transferred to the Trust;

(b) anything done before the date of the transfer by or in relation to the Authority in respect of the officer or the contract of employment shall be deemed from that time to have done by or in relation to the Trust.

(5) Paragraphs (1), (3) and (4) do not transfer an officer’s contract of employment, or any right or liability under or in connection with it, if he informs the Authority or the new employer that he objects to the transfer.

(6) Where an officer objects as mentioned in sub-paragraph (5) his contract of employment with the Authority shall be treated as having been terminated immediately before the date on which the transfer would occur, but he shall not be treated, for any purpose, as having been dismissed by the Authority.

(7) This article is without prejudice to any right of an officer to terminate his contract of employment if a substantial change is made to his detriment in his working conditions; but no such right shall arise by reason only that the identity of his employer changes unless the officer shows, that, in all the circumstances, the change is a significant change and is to his detriment.

(8) For the purposes of this article, the new employer is the Trust.

Transfer of property, rights and liabilities

4. The property rights and liabilities of the Authority shall be transferred to the Trust.

Winding-up of affairs of the Authority

5. It shall be the duty of the Trust to take such action as may be necessary for the winding-up of the affairs of the Authority, including the preparation of the outstanding accounts of the Authority and the performance of all statutory duties relating to those accounts.