Citation, commencement and interpretation

1. —(1) This Order may be cited as the Imperial College Healthcare National Health ServiceTrust (Establishment) and the Hammersmith Hospitals National Health ServiceTrust and the St Mary’s National Health Service Trust (Dissolution) Order 2007 and shall come into force on 1 ^st October 2007.

(2) In this Order—

“the Act” means the National Health Service Act 2006;

“community health services” means any services which the Secretary of State may provide under section 3(1)(d) or (e) of, or paragraph 2 or 3 of Schedule 1 to, the Act and any service which he has a duty to provide under paragraph 1 or 8 of that Schedule;

“dissolution date” means the 1st October 2007;

“operational date” has the meaning assigned to it in paragraph 5(5) of Schedule 4 to the Act; and

“the trust” means the Imperial College Healthcare National Health ServiceTrust established by article 2.

Establishment and name of the trust

2. There is established a National Health Servicetrust which shall be called the Imperial College Healthcare National Health ServiceTrust.

Nature and functions of the trust

3. —(1) The trust is established for the purposes specified in section 25(1) of the Act.

(2) The trust’s functions shall be to provide goods and services, namely hospital accommodation and services, and community health services, for the purposes of the health service.

Directors of the trust

4. —(1) The trust shall have, in addition to the chairman, 5 executive directors and 7 non-executive directors.

(2) Since the trust is to be regarded as having a significant teaching commitment within the meaning of paragraph 5(3) of Schedule 4 to the Act, one of the non-executive directors shall be appointed from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine.

Operational date and accounting date of the trust

5. —(1) The operational date of the trust shall be 1 ^st October 2007.

(2) The accounting date of the trust shall be 31 ^st March.

Dissolution of NHS trusts and revocation of orders

6. On the dissolution date—

(a) the Hammersmith Hospitals National Health ServiceTrust, which was established by the Hammersmith Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1994( 3 ); and

(b) the St Mary’s National Health ServiceTrust, which was established by the St Mary’s National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1991( 4 ),

are dissolved, and accordingly those Orders, and the Hammersmith Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 2005( 5 ), are revoked.