The National Health Service (District Health Authorities) Order 1991

Made: 25th February 1991

Laid before Parliament: 4th March 1991

Coming into force: 1st April 1991

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of powers conferred by sections 8(1)(b) and (1A) and 126(3) of the National Health Service Act 1977[^f00001] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the National Health Service (District Health Authorities) Order 1991 and shall come into force on 1st April 1991.

Abolition of Authorities

2

The following District Health Authorities are hereby abolished—

• (a) Central Birmingham Health Authority,

• (b) Leeds Eastern Health Authority,

• (c) Leeds Western Health Authority,

• (d) North Warwickshire Health Authority,

• (e) Rugby Health Authority,

• (f) South Birmingham Health Authority.

Establishment and names of new Authorities

3

For each of the districts determined by the National Health Service (Determination of Districts) Order 1981[^f00002] and specified in column (1) in the Schedule to this Order there is hereby established a District Health Authority which shall be known by the name specified in relation to that district in column (2) of that Schedule.

Amendment of National Health Service (District Health Authorities) Order 1990

4

In consequence of articles 2 and 3 of this Order the National Health Service (District Health Authorities) Order 1990[^f00003] shall be amended as follows:

• (a) by the insertion in article 3(1) before the words “shall continue to be” of the words “is or”, and before the words “be known” of the word “shall”,

• (b) by the substitution in Part 2 of Schedule 1 for the entries in columns (1) and (2) relating to Leeds Eastern District and Leeds Western District of the entry—

• (c) by the omission from Part 12 of Schedule 1 of the entries in columns (1) and (2) relating to North Warwickshire District, Rugby District and Central Birmingham District and the insertion after the entry relating to North Birmingham District of the entry—

SCHEDULE — NEWLY ESTABLISHED DISTRICT HEALTH AUTHORITIES

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.

Stephen Dorrell — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, — Department of Health — 25th February 1991

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order abolishes from 1st April 1991 the District Health Authorities named in article 2, and establishes the three new District Health Authorities specified in the Schedule to the Order. The National Health Service (District Health Authorities) Order 1990 is amended to reflect these changes.

The changes made to District Health Authorities in this Order are reflected in changes to the districts of the abolished Health Authorities made by the National Health Service (Determination of Districts) Order 1991.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1977 c. 49; section 8 was amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), section 1 and Schedule 1, Part I, paragraph 28 and by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), section 1.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1981/1837; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1991/326.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1990/1756.