The National Health Service (District Health Authorities) (No.2) Order 1993

Made: 9th September 1993

Laid before Parliament: 10th September 1993

Coming into force: 1st October 1993

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of powers conferred on her by sections 8(1)(b) and (1A)(c) and 126(3) of the National Health Service Act 1977[^f00001] and of all other powers enabling her 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) (No.2) Order 1993 and shall come into force on 1st October 1993.

Abolition of Authorities

2

The District Health Authorities specified in Schedule 1 to this Order are hereby abolished.

Establishment and names of new Authorities

3

For each of the districts determined by the National Health Service (Determination of Districts) (No.2) Order 1993[^f00002] and specified in column (1) of Schedule 2 to this Order there is established a District Health Authority which shall be known by the name specified in column (2) of that Schedule in relation to that district.

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

4

In consequence of articles 2 and 3 of this Order, Schedule 1 to the National Health Service (District Health Authorities) Order 1990[^f00003] shall be amended—

• (a) by the omission from Part 10 of the entries in columns (1) and (2) relating to East Berkshire District and West Berkshire District, and the insertion, immediately before the entries in that Part relating to Buckinghamshire District, of the following entries in columns (1) and (2) respectively:—

• (b) by the omission from Part 13 of the entries in columns (1) and (2) relating to Crewe District, Halton District, Macclesfield District, Southport and Formby District, South Sefton (Merseyside) District and Warrington District, and the insertion, immediately before the entries in that Part relating to St. Helens and Knowsley District, of the following entries in columns (1) and (2) respectively:—

SCHEDULE 1 — DISTRICT HEALTH AUTHORITIES ABOLISHED

• Crewe Health Authority

• East Berkshire Health Authority

• Halton Health Authority

• Macclesfield Health Authority

• Southport and Formby Health Authority

• South Sefton (Merseyside) Health Authority

• Warrington Health Authority

• West Berkshire Health Authority

SCHEDULE 2 — NEWLY ESTABLISHED DISTRICT HEALTH AUTHORITIES

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Tom Sackville — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, — Department of Health — 9th September 1993

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order abolishes on 1st October 1993 the District Health Authorities specified in Schedule 1 (article 2), and establishes the new District Health Authorities specified in Schedule 2 in relation to the districts for which they are established (article 3). The National Health Service (District Health Authorities) Order 1990 is amended to reflect these changes (article 4).

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) (No.2) Order 1993.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1977 c. 49; section 8 was amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), section 1(7) and Schedule 1, Part I, paragraph 28, and by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), section 1(1).

[^f00003]: S.I.1990/1756, as amended by S.I.1991/325, 2040, 1992/119, 366, 2164, 2752 and 1993/572.