The National Health Service (District Health Authorities) Order 1994

Made: 10th March 1994

Laid before Parliament: 10th March 1994

Coming into force: 1st April 1994

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 1994 and shall come into force on 1st April 1994.

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 1994[^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 the National Health Service (District Health Authorities) Order 1990[^f00003]—

• (a) in article 3(2) (continuation of Authorities in England) for the words from “14 Parts” to “1981”there shall be subsituted the words “8 Parts”, each numbered Part corresponding with the number of a region specified in Schedule 3 to the National Health Service (Determination of Regions) Order 1994[^f00004];

• (b) for Schedule 1 (District Health Authorities in England) there shall be substituted the new Schedule 1 set out in Schedule 3 to this Order.

SCHEDULE 1 — DISTRICT HEALTH AUTHORITIES ABOLISHED

• Basingstoke and North Hampshire Health Authority

• Bath Health Authority

• Bexley Health Authority

• Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley Health Authority

• Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde Health Authority

• Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale Health Authority

• Bury Health Authority

• Canterbury and Thanet Health Authority

• Central Manchester Health Authority

• Chorley and South Ribble Health Authority

• Dartford and Gravesham Health Authority

• East Birmingham Health Authority

• East Cumbria Health Authority

• Gateshead Health Authority

• Great Yarmouth and Waveney Health Authority

• Greenwich Health Authority

• Hartlepool Health Authority

• Kettering Health Authority

• Lancaster Health Authority

• Maidstone Health Authority

• Medway Health Authority

• Merton and Sutton Health Authority

• Mid Staffordshire Health Authority

• Northampton Health Authority

• North Bedfordshire Health Authority

• North Birmingham Health Authority

• North Lincolnshire Health Authority

• North Manchester Health Authority

• North Tees Health Authority

• Norwich Health Authority

• Oldham Health Authority

• Preston Health Authority

• Rochdale Health Authority

• Salford Health Authority

• Salisbury Health Authority

• South Bedfordshire Health Authority

• South Cumbria Health Authority

• South East Kent Health Authority

• South East Staffordshire Health Authority

• South Lincolnshire Health Authority

• South Manchester Health Authority

• South Tees Health Authority

• South Tyneside Health Authority

• Suffolk Health Authority

• Swindon Health Authority

• Tameside and Glossop Health Authority

• Trafford Health Authority

• Tunbridge Wells Health Authority

• Wandsworth Health Authority

• West Birmingham Health Authority

• West Cumbria Health Authority

• West Lancashire Health Authority

• Winchester 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 — 10th March 1994

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order abolishes on 1st April 1994 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 substitutes a new Schedule 1 to 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. 1994/681.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1990/1756, as amended by S.I. 1991/325, 2040, 1992/119, 366, 2164, 2752, 1993/572 and 2218.

[^f00004]: S.I. 1994/683.