The Bexley Community Health National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1996

Made: 27th March 1996

Coming into force: 6th April 1996

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of powers conferred on him by section 126(3) of the National Health Service Act 1977[^f00001] and section 5(1) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990[^f00002] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

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This Order may be cited as the Bexley Community Health National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1996, and shall come into force on 6th April 1996.

Amendment of Establishment Order

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In Article 3 of the Bexley Community Health National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1994[^f00003] (functions of the trust)—

• (a) in paragraph (1) for “section 5(1)(a)” there shall be substituted “section 5(1)(b)”; and

• (b) for paragraph (2) there shall be substituted the following new paragraph:—

(2) The trust’s functions shall be to provide and manage community health services at all or any of the following premises— (a) Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup, Kent DA14 6LT; (b) Bexley Hospital, Bexley, Kent DA5 2BW; (c) Greenwich Memorial Hospital, Vanbrugh Hill, London SE10 9HE; (d) Memorial Hospital, Shooters Hill, London SE18; and (e) Goldie Leigh Hospital, Lodge Hill, Abbey Wood, London SE2; and at any other premises which are associated with any of these hospitals.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

John Horam — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, — Department of Health — 27th March 1996

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Order which established the Bexley Community Health National Health Service Trust (now called the Oxleas National Health Service Trust) to alter the purpose for which the trust was established, and to amend is functions. (The trust has, in exercise of its existing functions, assumed responsibility for the management of community health services from Bexley Hospital, which were previously managed by the former Bexley Health Authority, and for the ownership of the associated premises.)

This Order confers on the trust the purpose specified in section 5(1)(b) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990, to provide and manage hospitals or other establishments or facilities. It also alters the trust’s functions to enable it to provide community health services from premises not previously provided or managed by a health authority, and so that the trust is no longer required to own the premises from which it is to provide such services.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1977 c. 49; section 126(3) was amended by section 65(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19).

[^f00002]: 1990 c. 19.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1994/183, as amended by S.I. 1995/1235.