Statutory Instruments
2003 No. 2662
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND
The Portsmouth City Primary Care Trust (Change of Name) Amendment Order 2003
Made
13th October 2003
Coming into force
4th November 2003
The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 16A(1) and (2) and 126(3) 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 hereby makes the following Order:
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1. —(1) This Order may be cited as the Portsmouth City Primary Care Trust (Change of Name) Amendment Order 2003 and shall come into force on 4th November 2003.
(2) In this Order—
“the Establishment Order” means the Portsmouth City Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Order 2001 ( 2 ); and
“the trust” means the Primary Care Trust established by the Establishment Order.
Change of name of the trust
2. The trust shall be called the Portsmouth City Teaching Primary Care Trust instead of the Portsmouth City Primary Care Trust, and accordingly—
(a) in article 1(2) of the Establishment Order (citation, commencement and interpretation), in the definition of “the trust”; and
(b) in article 2 of the Establishment Order (establishment and name of the Primary Care Trust),
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“Portsmouth City” shall be replaced by “Portsmouth City Teaching”.
3. The change of name effected by article 2 of this Order 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.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
John Hutton
Minister of State,
Department of Health
13th October 2003
1977 c. 49 ; section 16A was inserted by section 2(1) of the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) (“the 1999 Act”), section 16A(1) was substituted for section 16A(1) as originally enacted by sections 2(1) and (2) of the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c. 17) ; section 126(3) was amended by section 65(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) , paragraph 57 of Schedule 1 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17) and section 41(10) of, and paragraph 27 of Schedule 2 to, the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46) ; paragraph 1 of Schedule 5A was inserted by section 2(2) of 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(a) of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999, S.I. 1999/672 , as amended by section 66(5) of the 1999 Act.