The National Health Service (District Health Authorities) Order 1993

Made: 9th March 1993

Laid before Parliament: 10th March 1993

Coming into force: 1st April 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) Order 1993 and shall come into force on 1st April 1993, immediately after the National Health Service (District Health Authorities) (No. 2) Order 1992[^f00002] comes fully into force.

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) Order 1993[^f00003] 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, for Schedule 1 to the National Health Service (District Health Authorities) Order 1990[^f00004] there shall be substituted the new Schedule 1 set out in Schedule 3 to this Order.

SCHEDULE 1 — DISTRICT HEALTH AUTHORITIES ABOLISHED

• Aylesbury Vale Health Authority

• Barking, Havering and Brentwood Health Authority

• Basildon and Thurrock Health Authority

• Bloomsbury and Islington Health Authority

• Brighton Health Authority

• Calderdale Health Authority

• City and Hackney Health Authority

• Darlington Health Authority

• Dewsbury Health Authority

• Ealing Health Authority

• Eastbourne Health Authority

• East Suffolk Health Authority

• East Yorkshire Health Authority

• Enfield Health Authority

• Exeter Health Authority

• Grimsby Health Authority

• Hampstead Health Authority

• Haringey Health Authority

• Harrow Health Authority

• Hastings Health Authority

• Hounslow and Spelthorne Health Authority

• Huddersfield Health Authority

• Hull Health Authority

• Kingston and Esher Health Authority

• Mid Essex Health Authority

• Milton Keynes Health Authority

• Newham Health Authority

• North Devon Health Authority

• North East Essex Health Authority

• North East Warwickshire Health Authority

• North West Surrey Health Authority

• Parkside Health Authority

• Plymouth Health Authority

• Pontefract Health Authority

• Redbridge Health Authority

• Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton Health Authority

• Riverside Health Authority

• Scunthorpe Health Authority

• Southend Health Authority

• South Warwickshire Health Authority

• South West Durham Health Authority

• South West Surrey Health Authority

• Torbay Health Authority

• Tower Hamlets Health Authority

• Wakefield Health Authority

• Waltham Forest Health Authority

• West Essex Health Authority

• West Suffolk Health Authority

• West Surrey and North East Hampshire Health Authority

• Wycombe Health Authority

SCHEDULE 2 — NEWLY ESTABLISHED DISTRICT HEALTH AUTHORITIES

SCHEDULE 3 — NEW SCHEDULE 1 TO BE SUBSTITUTED FOR SCHEDULE 1 TO THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (DISTRICT HEALTH AUTHORITIES) ORDER 1990

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

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

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order abolishes on 1st April 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).

This Order also substitutes a new Schedule 1 in the National Health Service (District Health Authorities) Order 1990 which lists all the District Health Authorities in England (Article 4 and Schedule 3).

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 the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), section 1(1).

[^f00002]: S.I. 1992/366.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1993/574.

[^f00004]: S.I. 1990/1756, as amended by S.I. 1991/325, 2040, 1992/119, 366, 2164 and 2752.