Statutory Instruments
2002 No. 992
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND
The Ashford Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Order 2002
Made
25th March 2002
Coming into force
1st April 2002
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, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 5A to, 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, commencement and interpretation
1. —(1) This Order may be cited as the Ashford Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Order 2002 and shall come into force on 1st April 2002.
(2) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—
“operational date” is to be construed in accordance with paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 5A to the Act;
“the trust” means the Ashford Primary Care Trust established by article 2 of this Order.
Establishment, operational date and name of the Primary Care Trust
2. —(1) There is hereby established with effect from 1st April 2002 a Primary Care Trust to be called the Ashford Primary Care Trust.
(2) The operational date of the trust shall be 1st April 2002.
Area of the trust
3. The trust shall be established for the area specified in the Schedule to this Order.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Hazel Blears
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Health
25th March 2002
Article 3
SCHEDULE AREA OF TRUST
In the borough of Ashford Borough Council—
the electoral wards of Aldington, Appledore, Ashford Bockhanger, Ashford Brookfield, Ashford Bybrook, Ashford Central, Ashford Eastmead, Ashford Hampden, Ashford Henwood, Ashford Kennington Lees, Ashford Musgrove, Ashford Queens, Ashford Singleton, Ashford South Willesborough, Ashford Spearpoint, Ashford Twelve Acres, Ashford Victoria Park, Ashford Warren, Ashford Waterside, Ashford Willesborough Lees, Ashford Windmill, Ashford Woolreeds, Bethersden, Biddenden, Boughton Aluph, Brabourne, Hamstreet, High Halden, Hothfield, Kingsnorth, Mersham, Pluckley, Rolvenden, Sellindge, Smarden, Stanhope, Tenterden East, Tenterden South East, Tenterden St Michaels, Tenterden West, Woodchurch, Wye.
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); Schedule 5A was inserted by the 1999 Act, Schedule 1. 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, 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 .