Statutory Instruments
2002 No. 2397
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND
The Eastbourne and County National Health Service Trust Change of Name and (Establishment) Amendment Order (No. 2) 2002
Made
16th September 2002
Coming into force
1st 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, interpretation, and extent
1. —(1) This order may be cited as the Eastbourne and County National Health Service Trust Change of Name and (Establishment) Amendment Order 2002 (No. 2) and shall come into force on 1 October 2002.
(2) In this Order—
“the Order” means the Eastbourne and County National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1992( 3 );
“the trust” means the National Health Servicetrust established by the Order.
Change of name of National Health Service Trust and transitional provisions
2. —(1) The Trust shall be called the East Sussex County Healthcare National Health ServiceTrust instead of the East Sussex County National Health ServiceTrust, and accordingly in article 1 of the Order in the definition of “the trust”, and in article 2 of the Order, for “East Sussex County” there shall be substituted “East Sussex County Healthcare”.
(2) The change of name effected by paragraph (1) 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.
Revocation of previous Change of Name Order
3.The Eastbourne and County National Health Service Trust Change of Name and (Establishment) Amendment Order 2002( 4 ) is revoked.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
Hazel Blears
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of Health
16th September 2002
1977 c. 49 (“the 1977 Act”). Section 126(3) was amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”), s65(2), and the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46) . Schedule 2, paragraph 27.
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 85(a); by the 1999 Act, section 13(7), (10), and by Schedule 4, paragraphs 74, 83(1), (2).
S.I. 1992/2534 . This S.I. was subsequently amended by S.I. 2002/1495 .