LegalizeThe Health Authorities Act 1995 (Transitional Provisions) Order 1996
Made: 11th March 1996
Laid before Parliament: 11th March 1996
Coming into force: 1st April 1996
The Secretary of State for Health, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, in exercise of powers conferred by section 126(4) and (5) of the National Health Service Act 1977[^f00001] and paragraphs 4, 7(1) (a), 13, 14, 16, 18, 19 and 20 of Schedule 2 to the Health Authorities Act 1995[^f00002], and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:
Citation, commencement and interpretation.
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- (1) This Order may be cited as the Health Authorities Act 1995 (Transitional Provisions) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 1st April 1996.
- (2) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—
- “the 1977 Act” means the National Health Service Act 1977;
- “the 1993 Act” means the Health Service Commissioners Act 1993[^f00003];
- “the 1995 Act” means the Health Authorities Act 1995;
- “charity” means a charity connected with purposes relating to the health service[^f00004];
- “District Health Authority” means a District Health Authority in existence immediately before 1st April 1996 under the 1977 Act as then in force;
- “Family Health Services Authority” means a Family Health Services Authority in existence immediately before 1st April 1996 under the 1977 Act as then in force;
- “new authority” means a Health Authority specified in column (1) of the Schedule to the Health Authorities (England) Establishment Order 1996[^f00005] or column (1) of the Schedule to the Health Authorities (Wales) Establishment Order 1996[^f00006];
- “old authority” means any District Health Authority or any Family Health Services Authority;
- “Regional Health Authority” means a Regional Health Authority in existence immediately before 1st April 1996 under the 1977 Act as then in force;
- “the relevant new authority” means— as respects any old authority specified in column (1) of Schedule 1, the new authority which is specified in column (2) of that Schedule in relation to that old authority; as respects any old authority specified in column (1) of Schedule 2, such new authority specified in column (2) or column (3) of that Schedule in relation to that old authority as is determined, in accordance with Schedule 3, to be the relevant new authority; and as respects any Regional Health Authority specified in column (1) of Schedule 4, the Health Authority which is specified in column (2) of that Schedule in relation to that Regional Health Authority; and
- “the Service Committees Regulations” means the National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) Regulations 1992[^f00007] as in force on 31st March 1996.
- (3) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—
- (a) any reference to a numbered article is a reference to the article bearing that number in this Order;
- (b) any reference in an article to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph bearing that number in that article; and
- (c) any reference to a numbered Schedule is a reference to the Schedule to this Order bearing that number.
Transfer of officers employed by old authorities.
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Any officer employed immediately before 1st April 1996 by an old authority specified in column (1) in Part I or III of Schedule 1 and who is not—
- (a) transferred on that date by means of a scheme made under paragraph 7(1)(b) of Schedule 2 to the 1995 Act; or
- (b) a person to whom paragraph 7(3) of that Schedule applies (persons transferred to NHS trusts on 1st April 1996);
is transferred on that date to the employment of the relevant new authority.
Transfer of officers employed by Regional Health Authorities.
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- (1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), any officer who is employed immediately before 1st April 1996 by a Regional Health Authority is transferred on that date to the employment of the Secretary of State.
- (2) Subject to paragraph (3), any officer of the grade of Senior Registrar, Registrar or Specialist Registrar who is employed immediately before 1st April 1996 by a Regional Health Authority is transferred on that date to the employment of the NHS trust on whose functions that officer was engaged to work immediately before that date.
- (3) Paragraphs (1) and (2) shall not apply to an officer who is—
- (a) transferred on 1st April by virtue of a scheme made under paragraph 7(1)(b) of Schedule 2 to the 1995 Act; or
- (b) a person to whom paragraph 7(3) of that Schedule (persons transferred to NHS trusts on 1st April 1996) applies.
Transfer of trust property.
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- (1) Subject to paragraph (2), any trust property vested immediately before 1st April 1996 in any old authority specified in column (1) in Part I of Schedule 1 shall on that date be transferred to the relevant new authority.
- (2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to any trust property which is vested immediately before 1st April 1996 in an old authority and which is transferred on that date by virtue of an order made under section 92 of the 1977 Act.
Accounts, and winding up of affairs, of old authorities.
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- (1) Any duty imposed on an old authority by section 98 of the 1977 Act, but not performed by 1st April 1996, shall be performed by the relevant new authority in accordance with the provisions of that section, of any regulations made under that section and of any directions which may be given by the Secretary of State.
- (2) Each new authority shall take such action as may be necessary for the winding up of the affairs of any old authority in relation to which it is the relevant new authority.
- (3) Any new authority which is specified in column (2) of Schedule 2 in relation to an old authority specified in column (1) of that Schedule shall, in accordance with any directions which the Secretary of State may give, assist the relevant new authority specified in column (3) of that Schedule with the discharge of its duties under paragraphs (1) and (2) with respect to the accounts and winding up of that old authority.
Exercise of powers in relation to trusts.
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Where, immediately before 1st April 1996, any power to appoint trustees of a charity is, under the trusts of the charity, vested in—
- (a) an old authority which is specified in column (1) in Part I or II of Schedule 1, or in Part I or II of Schedule 2; or
- (b) a Regional Health Authority,
that power vests on that date in the relevant new authority.
Substitution of new trustees.
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Where, under the trusts of a charity, the charity trustees immediately before 1st April 1996 include a person who is a trustee by virtue of his being an officer of—
- (a) an old authority which is specified in column (1) in Part I or II of Schedule 1, or in Part I or II of Schedule 2; or
- (b) a Regional Health Authority,
the trustees shall from that date instead include the holder of the corresponding office with the relevant new authority.
Amendment of trust instruments.
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Any trust instrument or scheme which contains—
- (a) a reference to an old authority specified in column (1) in Part I or II of Schedule 1, or in Part I or II of Schedule 2; or
- (b) a reference to a Regional Health Authority,
shall continue to apply with the substitution for that reference of a reference to the relevant new authority.
Investigation of complaints by Health Service Commissioners.
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- (1) A complaint made to the Health Service Commissioner for England or Wales under the 1993 Act—
- (a) in relation to an old authority; or
- (b) which is, by virtue of any enactment in force on 31st March 1996, to be treated as if it had been made in relation to an old authority,
whether made before, on or after 1st April 1996, may, notwithstanding the abolition of that Authority, be investigated by that Commissioner, as if the complaint had been made in relation to the relevant new authority.
- (2) A complaint made to the Health Service Commissioner for England under the 1993 Act—
- (a) in relation to any Regional Health Authority, or
- (b) which is, by virtue of any enactment in force on 31st March 1996, to be treated as if it had been made in relation to any Regional Health Authority,
whether made before, on or after 1st April 1996, may, notwithstanding the abolition of that Authority, be investigated by that Commissioner in accordance with that Act as modified by paragraph (3).
- (3) For the purpose of the investigation of a complaint to which paragraph (2) applies, the 1993 Act shall be modified as follows:—
- (a) in section 11 (procedure in respect of investigations)—
- (i) in subsection (1)(a), for “health service body concerned” substitute “Secretary of State”; and
- (ii) in subsection (5), for “the health service body concerned” and “that body” substitute (in each case) “the Secretary of State”;
- (b) in section 12 (evidence), in subsection (1), for the words from “or member” to “concerned” substitute “of the Secretary of State”; and
- (c) in section 14 (reports by Commissioners), omit subsection (1)(c).
Investigation of other complaints.
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- (1) Any complaint made or any matter referred before 1st April 1996 under Part II of the Service Committees Regulations to a Family Health Services Authority but not disposed of by that date shall continue to be investigated by the relevant new authority as if any reference in those Regulations to a Family Health Services Authority were a reference to a Health Authority, and the appropriate committee under regulation 4 of those Regulations may continue to investigate such a complaint or, as the case may be, such a matter, as if that committee were a committee of the relevant new authority.
- (2) Any complaint made before 1st April 1996 under section 1 of the Hospital Complaints Procedure Act 1985[^f00008] , but not disposed of before that date, in relation to a hospital managed by—
- (a) an old authority specified in column (1) in Part I or II of Schedule 1, or in Part I or II of Schedule 2; or
- (b) a Regional Health Authority,
shall be dealt with by the relevant new authority.
Community Health Councils.
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- (1) Notwithstanding section 1(1) of the 1995 Act (abolition of RHAs, DHAs and FHSAs) and the coming into force of the Health Authorities (England) Establishment Order 1996[^f00009], any Community Health Council[^f00010] in existence on 31st March 1996 in relation to any district in England shall continue to be established in relation to the same district.
- (2) In paragraph (1), “district” has the meaning assigned to it by paragraph 7 of Schedule 7 to the 1977 Act[^f00011].
Joint Consultative Committees.
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Until 1st October 1996, the Joint Consultative Committees Order 1985[^f00012] shall have effect as if—
- (a) in article 6 of that Order (representation of voluntary organisations on Committees) for the words “three members” there were substituted the words “such number of members, being not less than two, as the Secretary of State shall, in relation to any Committee, determine”;
- (b) for article 7 of that Order (appointment of members by voluntary organisations) there were substituted the following article—
(7) (1) The Secretary of State shall, after consultation with each Health Authority and each local authority represented on the Committee, invite such number as he thinks fit of the voluntary organisations which appear to him to have an interest in services of common concern to those bodies to appoint members to the Committee. (2) Each organisation which is invited under paragraph (1) above to make appointments shall appoint to the Committee such number of members as the Secretary of State shall determine in relation to that organisation. (3) Before exercising its power of appointment under paragraph (2) above, a voluntary organisation shall, for the purposes of giving effect to paragraph (4) below, consult the other organisation or organisations invited to make appointments to the same Committee. (4) The voluntary organisations which are invited under paragraph (1) above to make appointments to the same Committee shall so exercise their powers under paragraph (2) above as to secure that any person who on 31st March 1996 was, by virtue of article 7 of the Order as then in force, a member of a Committee (“the old Committee”) is given an opportunity to serve until 30th September 1996 on a Committee on which there is represented a Health Authority whose area includes the whole or any part of the district of a former District Health Authority which was represented on the old Committee.
; and
- (c) in article 8 of that Order (vacancies among members appointed under article 7)—
- (i) in paragraph (2), for the words from “appointed” to the end of the paragraph there were substituted the words “shall be for a period ending on 30th September 1996.”,
- (ii) paragraphs (4) and (6) were omitted,
- (iii) in paragraph (7) for the words from “invite” to the end of the paragraph there were substituted the words “invite the voluntary organisation which appointed the member whose departure has given rise to the vacancy to appoint another member in his place.”, and
- (iv) paragraph (8) were omitted.
Lists of practititioners.
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- (1) Any person (“the practitioner”) whose name was, on 31st March 1996, included in any list maintained by a Family Health Services Authority under section 29, 36, 39 or 42 of the 1977 Act shall on 1st April 1996 have his name included in the corresponding list maintained by—
- (a) in the case of a list maintained under section 29 of the 1977 Act, any Health Authority in whose area there resides a person who is on the practitioner’s list of patients; and
- (b) in the case of any other list, any Health Authority in whose area are located premises at or from which the practitioner was on 31st March providing, and continues to provide, services under Part II of the 1977 Act.
- (2) In paragraph (1), “Health Authority” means a Health Authority specified in column (2) of Schedule 1, or in column (2) or (3) of Schedule 2, in relation to that Family Health Services Authority.
Continuity in exercise of functions of old authorities.
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- (1) Subject to paragraph (2), anything done by or in relation to, or any application made by or in relation to, or any direction, authorisation or notice given to, by or in relation to, an old authority is deemed to have been done by or in relation to, or made by or in relation to, or given to, by or in relation to, the relevant new authority.
- (2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to any recognition granted by a Family Health Services Authority under section 44(1) of the 1977 Act in relation to a Local Medical Committee, Local Dental Committee, Local Optical Committee or Local Pharmaceutical Committee.
- (3) Any instrument made by an old authority continues in force, unless it is expressed to cease to be in force sooner, until it is varied or revoked by the relevant new authority.
- (4) Any form supplied by an old authority and any form supplied by the Secretary of State relating to an old authority continues to be a valid form in relation to the relevant new authority, until it is cancelled or withdrawn by the Secretary of State or, as the case may be, the relevant new authority, as if any reference contained in the form to the old authority were a reference to the relevant new authority.
Continuity in exercise of functions of Regional Health Authorities.
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- (1) Subject to paragraph (2), anything done by or in relation to, or any application made by or in relation to, or any direction, authorisation or notice given to, by or in relation to, any Regional Health Authority is deemed to have been done by or in relation to, or made by or in relation to, or given to, by or in relation to—
- (a) where the function in connection with which the thing was done, the application was made or the direction, authorisation or notice was given is, on and after 1st April 1996, a function of the Secretary of State, the Secretary of State; and
- (b) where the function in connection with which the thing was done, the application was made or the direction, authorisation or notice was given is, on and after 1st April 1996, a function of a Health Authority, that Health Authority acting for the area in relation to which the thing was done, the application was made or the direction, authorisation or notice was given.
- (2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to any direction given by a Regional Health Authority under the 1977 Act or the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990[^f00013], but any other instrument made by a Regional Health Authority continues in force, unless it is expressed to cease to be in force sooner, until it is varied or revoked by the Secretary of State or, as the case may be, by a Health Authority.
- (3) Any director of an NHS trust or member of a Community Health Council appointed before 1st April 1996 by a Regional Health Authority is to continue as such on and after that date as if he had been appointed by the Secretary of State.
- (4) Any form supplied by a Regional Health Authority or by the Secretary of State relating to a Regional Health Authority which relates to a function which is, on and after 1st April 1996, a function of a Health Authority, continues to be a valid form in relation to that Health Authority until it is cancelled or withdrawn by the Secretary of State or that Health Authority, as if any reference contained in the form to the Regional Health Authority were a reference to that Health Authority.
SCHEDULE 1 — RELEVANT NEW AUTHORITIES FOR OLD AUTHORITIES WHOSE DISTRICTS OR LOCALITIES COMPRISE OR FORM PART OF THE AREA OF ONLY ONE NEW AUTHORITY
PART I — DISTRICT HEALTH AUTHORITIES (ENGLAND)
| (1) | (2) |
|---|---|
| Old authority | Relevant new authority |
| Barking and Havering Health Authority | Barking & Havering Health Authority |
| Barnet Health Authority | Barnet Health Authority |
| Barnsley Health Authority | Barnsley Health Authority |
| Bedfordshire Health Authority | Bedfordshire Health Authority |
| Berkshire Health Authority | Berkshire Health Authority |
| Bexley and Greenwich Health Authority | Bexley and Greenwich Health Authority |
| Bradford Health Authority | Bradford Health Authority |
| Brent and Harrow Health Authority | Brent & Harrow Health Authority |
| Bristol and District Health Authority | Avon Health Authority |
| Bromley Health Authority | Bromley Health Authority |
| Buckinghamshire Health Authority | Buckinghamshire Health Authority |
| Bury and Rochdale Health Authority | Bury and Rochdale Health Authority |
| Cambridge Health Authority | Cambridge & Huntingdon Health Authority |
| Camden and Islington Health Authority | Camden & Islington Health Authority |
| Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Health Authority | Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Health Authority |
| Coventry Health Authority | Coventry Health Authority |
| Croydon Health Authority | Croydon Health Authority |
| Doncaster Health Authority | Doncaster Health Authority |
| Dorset Health Authority | Dorset Health Authority |
| Dudley Health Authority | Dudley Health Authority |
| Ealing Hammersmith and Hounslow Health Authority | Ealing, Hammersmith & Hounslow Health Authority |
| Eastern Surrey Health Authority | East Surrey Health Authority |
| East Kent Health Authority | East Kent Health Authority |
| East Lancashire Health Authority | East Lancashire Health Authority |
| East London and The City Health Authority | East London and The City Health Authority |
| East Norfolk Health Authority | East Norfolk Health Authority |
| East and North Hertfordshire Health Authority | East and North Hertfordshire Health Authority |
| East Riding Health Authority | East Riding Health Authority |
| East Sussex Health Authority | East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Health Authority |
| Exeter and North Devon Health Authority | North and East Devon Health Authority |
| Gloucestershire Health Authority | Gloucestershire Health Authority |
| Herefordshire Health Authority | Herefordshire Health Authority |
| Hillingdon Health Authority | Hillingdon Health Authority |
| Huntingdon Health Authority | Cambridge & Huntingdon Health Authority |
| Isle of Wight Health Authority | Isle of Wight Health Authority |
| Kensington Chelsea and Westminster Health Authority | Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster Health Authority |
| Kingston and Richmond Health Authority | Kingston and Richmond Health Authority |
| Leeds Health Authority | Leeds Health Authority |
| Leicestershire Health Authority | Leicestershire Health Authority |
| Lincolnshire Health Authority | Lincolnshire Health Authority |
| Liverpool Health Authority | Liverpool Health Authority |
| Manchester Health Authority | Manchester Health Authority |
| Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth Health Authority | Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth Health Authority |
| Morecambe Bay Health Authority | Morecambe Bay Health Authority |
| Newcastle and North Tyneside Health Authority | Newcastle & North Tyneside Health Authority |
| New River Health Authority | Enfield & Haringey Health Authority |
| Northamptonshire Health Authority | Northamptonshire Health Authority |
| Northumberland Health Authority | Northumberland Health Authority |
| North Birmingham Health Authority | Birmingham Health Authority |
| North Cheshire Health Authority | North Cheshire Health Authority |
| North Cumbria Health Authority | North Cumbria Health Authority |
| North Derbyshire Health Authority | North Derbyshire Health Authority |
| North Durham Health Authority | County Durham Health Authority |
| North Essex Health Authority | North Essex Health Authority |
| North and Mid Hampshire Health Authority | North and Mid Hampshire Health Authority |
| North Nottinghamshire Health Authority | North Nottinghamshire Health Authority |
| North Staffordshire Health Authority | North Staffordshire Health Authority |
| North West Anglia Health Authority | North West Anglia Health Authority |
| North West Hertfordshire Health Authority | West Hertfordshire Health Authority |
| North West Lancashire Health Authority | North West Lancashire Health Authority |
| North Worcestershire Health Authority | Worcestershire Health Authority |
| North Yorkshire Health Authority | North Yorkshire Health Authority |
| Nottingham Health Authority | Nottingham Health Authority |
| Oxfordshire Health Authority | Oxfordshire Health Authority |
| Plymouth and Torbay Health Authority | South and West Devon Health Authority |
| Portsmouth and South East Hampshire Health Authority | Portsmouth and South East Hampshire Health Authority |
| Redbridge and Waltham Forest Health Authority | Redbridge and Waltham Forest Health Authority |
| Rotherham Health Authority | Rotherham Health Authority |
| Salford and Trafford Health Authority | Salford and Trafford Health Authority |
| Sandwell Health Authority | Sandwell Health Authority |
| Sefton Health Authority | Sefton Health Authority |
| Sheffield Health Authority | Sheffield Health Authority |
| Shropshire Health Authority | Shropshire Health Authority |
| Solihull Health Authority | Solihull Health Authority |
| Somerset Health Authority | Somerset Health Authority |
| Southampton and South West Hampshire Health Authority | Southampton and South West Hampshire Health Authority |
| Southern Derbyshire Health Authority | Southern Derbyshire Health Authority |
| South Birmingham Health Authority | Birmingham Health Authority |
| South Cheshire Health Authority | South Cheshire Health Authority |
| South Durham Health Authority | County Durham Health Authority |
| South East London Health Authority | Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham Health Authority |
| South Essex Health Authority | South Essex Health Authority |
| South Lancashire Health Authority | South Lancashire Health Authority |
| South Staffordshire Health Authority | South Staffordshire Health Authority |
| South of Tyne Health Authority | Gateshead and South Tyneside Health Authority |
| South West Hertfordshire Health Authority | West Hertfordshire Health Authority |
| St Helens and Knowsley Health Authority | St Helens and Knowsley Health Authority |
| Stockport Health Authority | Stockport Health Authority |
| Suffolk Health Authority | Suffolk Health Authority |
| Sunderland Health Authority | Sunderland Health Authority |
| Tees Health Authority | Tees Health Authority |
| Wakefield Health Authority | Wakefield Health Authority |
| Walsall Health Authority | Walsall Health Authority |
| Warwickshire Health Authority | Warwickshire Health Authority |
| Western Surrey Health Authority | West Surrey Health Authority |
| West Kent Health Authority | West Kent Health Authority |
| West Pennine Health Authority | West Pennine Health Authority |
| West Sussex Health Authority | West Sussex Health Authority |
| West Yorkshire Health Authority | Calderdale and Kirklees Health Authority |
| Wigan and Bolton Health Authority | Wigan and Bolton Health Authority |
| Wirral Health Authority | Wirral Health Authority |
| Wolverhampton Health Authority | Wolverhampton Health Authority |
| Worcester and District Health Authority | Worcestershire Health Authority |
PART II — DISTRICT HEALTH AUTHORITIES (WALES)
| (1) | (2) |
|---|---|
| Old authority | Relevant new authority |
| Dyfed Health Authority | Dyfed Powys Health Authority |
| Gwent Health Authority | Gwent Health Authority |
| Gwynedd Health Authority | North Wales Health Authority |
| Powys Health Authority | Dyfed Powys Health Authority |
| South Glamorgan Health Authority | Bro Taf Health Authority |
| West Glamorgan Health Authority | Morgannwg Health Authority |
PART III — FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES AUTHORITIES (ENGLAND)
| (1) | (2) |
|---|---|
| Old authority | Relevant new authority |
| Avon Family Health Services Authority | Avon Health Authority |
| Barking and Havering Family Health Services Authority | Barking & Havering Health Authority |
| Barnet Family Health Services Authority | Barnet Health Authority |
| Barnsley Family Health Services Authority | Barnsley Health Authority |
| Bedfordshire Family Health Services Authority | Bedfordshire Health Authority |
| Berkshire Family Health Services Authority | Berkshire Health Authority |
| Birmingham Family Health Services Authority | Birmingham Health Authority |
| Bolton Family Health Services Authority | Wigan and Bolton Health Authority |
| Bradford Family Health Services Authority | Bradford Health Authority |
| Brent and Harrow Family Health Services Authority | Brent & Harrow Health Authority |
| Buckinghamshire Family Health Services Authority | Buckinghamshire Health Authority |
| Bury Family Health Services Authority | Bury and Rochdale Health Authority |
| Calderdale Family Health Services Authority | Calderdale and Kirklees Health Authority |
| Camden and Islington Family Health Services Authority | Camden & Islington Health Authority |
| City and East London Family Health Services Authority | East London and The City Health Authority |
| Cleveland Family Health Services Authority | Tees Health Authority |
| Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Family Health Services Authority | Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Health Authority |
| Coventry Family Health Services Authority | Coventry Health Authority |
| Croydon Family Health Services Authority | Croydon Health Authority |
| Doncaster Family Health Services Authority | Doncaster Health Authority |
| Dorset Family Health Services Authority | Dorset Health Authority |
| Dudley Family Health Services Authority | Dudley Health Authority |
| Durham Family Health Services Authority | County Durham Health Authority |
| Ealing Hammersmith and Hounslow Family Health Services Authority | Ealing, Hammersmith & Hounslow Health Authority |
| East Sussex Family Health Services Authority | East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Health Authority |
| Enfield and Haringey Family Health Services Authority | Enfield and Haringey Health Authority |
| Gateshead Family Health Services Authority | Gateshead and South Tyneside Health Authority |
| Gloucestershire Family Health Services Authority | Gloucestershire Health Authority |
| Greenwich and Bexley Family Health Services Authority | Bexley and Greenwich Health Authority |
| Hillingdon Family Health Services Authority | Hillingdon Health Authority |
| Isle of Wight Family Health Services Authority | Isle of Wight Health Authority |
| Kensington Chelsea and Westminster Family Health Services Authority | Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster Health Authority |
| Kingston and Richmond Family Health Services Authority | Kingston and Richmond Health Authority |
| Kirklees Family Health Services Authority | Calderdale and Kirklees Health Authority |
| Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham Family Health Services Authority | Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham Health Authority |
| Leeds Family Health Services Authority | Leeds Health Authority |
| Leicestershire Family Health Services Authority | Leicestershire Health Authority |
| Lincolnshire Family Health Services Authority | Lincolnshire Health Authority |
| Liverpool Family Health Services Authority | Liverpool Health Authority |
| Manchester Family Health Services Authority | Manchester Health Authority |
| Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth Family Health Services Authority | Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth Health Authority |
| Newcastle Family Health Services Authority | Newcastle & North Tyneside Health Authority |
| Northamptonshire Family Health Services Authority | Northamptonshire Health Authority |
| North Tyneside Family Health Services Authority | Newcastle & North Tyneside Health Authority |
| Northumberland Family Health Services Authority | Northumberland Health Authority |
| North Yorkshire Family Health Services Authority | North Yorkshire Health Authority |
| Oldham Family Health Services Authority | West Pennine Health Authority |
| Oxfordshire Family Health Services Authority | Oxfordshire Health Authority |
| Redbridge and Waltham Forest Family Health Services Authority | Redbridge and Waltham Forest Health Authority |
| Rochdale Family Health Services Authority | Bury and Rochdale Health Authority |
| Rotherham Family Health Services Authority | Rotherham Health Authority |
| St Helens and Knowsley Family Health Services Authority | St Helens and Knowsley Health Authority |
| Salford Family Health Services Authority | Salford and Trafford Health Authority |
| Sandwell Family Health Services Authority | Sandwell Health Authority |
| Sefton Family Health Services Authority | Sefton Health Authority |
| Sheffield Family Health Services Authority | Sheffield Health Authority |
| Shropshire Family Health Services Authority | Shropshire Health Authority |
| Solihull Family Health Services Authority | Solihull Health Authority |
| Somerset Family Health Services Authority | Somerset Health Authority |
| South Tyneside Family Health Services Authority | Gateshead and South Tyneside Health Authority |
| Stockport Family Health Services Authority | Stockport Health Authority |
| Suffolk Family Health Services Authority | Suffolk Health Authority |
| Sunderland Family Health Services Authority | Sunderland Health Authority |
| Tameside Family Health Services Authority | West Pennine Health Authority |
| Trafford Family Health Services Authority | Salford and Trafford Health Authority |
| Wakefield Family Health Services Authority | Wakefield Health Authority |
| Walsall Family Health Services Authority | Walsall Health Authority |
| Warwickshire Family Health Services Authority | Warwickshire Health Authority |
| West Sussex Family Health Services Authority | West Sussex Health Authority |
| Wigan Family Health Services Authority | Wigan and Bolton Health Authority |
| Wiltshire Family Health Services Authority | Wiltshire Health Authority |
| Wirral Family Health Services Authority | Wirral Health Authority |
| Wolverhampton Family Health Services Authority | Wolverhampton Health Authority |
PART IV — FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES AUTHORITIES (WALES)
| (1) | (2) |
|---|---|
| Old authority | Relevant new authority |
| Dyfed Family Health Services Authority | Dyfed Powys Health Authority |
| Gwent Family Health Services Authority | Gwent Health Authority |
| Gwynedd Family Health Services Authority | North Wales Health Authority |
| Powys Family Health Services Authority | Dyfed Powys Health Authority |
| South Glamorgan Family Health Services Authority | Bro Taf Health Authority |
| West Glamorgan Family Health Services Authority | Morgannwg Health Authority |
SCHEDULE 2 — RELEVANT NEW AUTHORITIES FOR OLD AUTHORITIES WHOSE DISTRICTS OR LOCALITIES COMPRISE OR FORM PART OF THE AREA OF MORE THAN ONE NEW AUTHORITY
PART I — DISTRICT HEALTH AUTHORITIES (ENGLAND)
| (1) | (2) | (3) |
|---|---|---|
| Old authority | Relevant new authority for certain purposes | Relevant new authority for all remaining purposes |
| Grimsby and Scunthorpe Health Authority | South Humber Health Authority | East Riding Health Authority |
| Wiltshire and Bath Health Authority | Avon Health Authority | Wiltshire Health Authority |
PART II — DISTRICT HEALTH AUTHORITIES (WALES)
| (1) | (2) | (3) |
|---|---|---|
| Old authority | Relevant new authority for certain purposes | Relevant new authority for all remaining purposes |
| Clwyd Health Authority | Dyfed Powys Health Authority | North Wales Health Authority |
| Mid Glamorgan Health Authority | Gwent Health Authority, Morgannwg Health Authority | Bro Taf Health Authority |
PART III — FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES AUTHORITIES (ENGLAND)
| (1) | (2) | (3) |
|---|---|---|
| Old authority | Relevant new authority for certain purposes | Relevant new authority for all remaining purposes |
| Cambridgeshire Family Health Services Authority | North West Anglia Health Authority | Cambridge & Huntingdon Health Authority |
| Cheshire Family Health Services Authority | South Cheshire Health Authority | North Cheshire Health Authority |
| Cumbria Family Health Services Authority | Morecambe Bay Health Authority | North Cumbria Health Authority |
| Derbyshire Family Health Services Authority | North Derbyshire Health Authority, West Pennine Health Authority | Southern Derbyshire Health Authority |
| Devon Family Health Services Authority | South and West Devon Health Authority | North and East Devon Health Authority |
| Essex Family Health Services Authority | South Essex Health Authority | North Essex Health Authority |
| Hampshire Family Health Services Authority | North and Mid Hampshire Health Authority, Portsmouth and South East Hampshire Health Authority | Southampton and South West Hampshire Health Authority |
| Hereford and Worcester Family Health Services Authority | Herefordshire Health Authority | Worcestershire Health Authority |
| Hertfordshire Family Health Services Authority | West Hertfordshire Health Authority | East and North Hertfordshire Health Authority |
| Humberside Family Health Services Authority | South Humber Health Authority | East Riding Health Authority |
| Kent Family Health Services Authority | East Kent Health Authority | West Kent Health Authority |
| Lancashire Family Health Services Authority | East Lancashire Health Authority, Morecambe Bay Health Authority, South Lancashire Health Authority | North West Lancashire Health Authority |
| Norfolk Family Health Services Authority | North West Anglia Health Authority | East Norfolk Health Authority |
| Nottinghamshire Family Health Services Authority | North Nottinghamshire Health Authority | Nottingham Health Authority |
| Staffordshire Family Health Services Authority | South Staffordshire Health Authority | North Staffordshire Health Authority |
| Surrey Family Health Services Authority | West Surrey Health Authority | East Surrey Health Authority |
PART IV — FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES AUTHORITIES (WALES)
| (1) | (2) | (3) |
|---|---|---|
| Old authority | Relevant new authority for certain purposes | Relevant new authority for all remaining purposes |
| Clywd Family Health Services Authority | Dyfed Powys Health Authority | North Wales Health Authority |
| Mid Glamorgan Family Health Services Authority | Gwent Health Authority, Morgannwg Health Authority | Bro Taf Health Authority |
SCHEDULE 3 — DETERMINATION OF RELEVANT NEW AUTHORITIES FOR OLD AUTHORITIES SPECIFIED IN SCHEDULE 2
1
For the purposes of article 5(1) and (2) (accounts, and winding up of old authorities), the relevant new authority shall be the new authority specified in column (3).
2
For the purposes of articles 6(1), 7(1) and 8 (charitable trusts), the relevant new health authority shall—
- (a) where the trust is for purposes connected with any functions of the old authority which relate to a part of its district which on 1st April forms part of the area of a new authority specified in column (2), be that new authority; and
- (b) in any other case, be the new authority specified in column (3).
3
For the purposes of article 9(1) (complaints to the Health Service Commissioner) the relevant new authority shall—
- (a) where the complaint is made by or on behalf of a person who at the time to which the complaint relates resided at a place which on 1st April is located in the area of a new authority specified in column (2), be that new authority; and
- (b) in any other case, be the new authority specified in column (3).
4
For the purposes of article 10(1) (other complaints) the relevant new authority shall—
- (a) as respects a complaint in relation to a medical practitioner—
- (i) where the complaint is made by or in relation to a patient who, at the time to which the complaint relates, resided at a place which on 1st April 1996 is located in the area of a new authority specified in column (2), be that new authority, and ii in any other case, be the new authority specified in column (3); and
- (b) as respects any other complaint to which article 10(1) applies—
- (i) where the complaint relates to services provided at premises located in the area of a new authority specified in column (2), be that new authority, and
- (ii) in any other case, be the new authority specified in column (3).
5
For the purposes of article 10(2), the relevant new authority shall—
- (a) where the complaint is made in relation to a hospital which is located in the area of a new authority specified in column (2), be that new authority; and
- (b) in any other case, be the new authority specified in column (3).
6
For the purposes of article 14, the relevant new authority shall—
- (a) where the thing done, the application or instrument made, the direction, authority or notice given or the form supplied relates to any function exercised by the old authority with respect to any part of its district or, as the case may be, its locality which forms part of the area of a new authority specified in column (2), be that new authority; and
- (b) in any other case, be the new authority specified in column (3).
7
In this Schedule, “column (2)” and “column (3)” mean, respectively, column (2) and column (3) of Schedule 2.
SCHEDULE 4 — RELEVANT NEW AUTHORITIES (REGIONAL HEALTH AUTHORITIES)
| (1) | (2) |
|---|---|
| Old Authority | Relevant new authority |
| Anglia and Oxford Regional Health Authority | Cambridge & Huntingdon Health Authority |
| Northern and Yorkshire Regional Health Authority | Newcastle & North Tyneside Health Authority |
| North Thames Regional Health Authority | Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster Health Authority |
| North West Regional Health Authority | Manchester Health Authority |
| South Thames Regional Health Authority | Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham Health Authority |
| South and West Regional Health Authority | Avon Health Authority |
| Trent Regional Health Authority | Sheffield Health Authority |
| West Midlands Regional Health Authority | Warwickshire Health Authority |
Signed
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
Gerald Malone — Minister of State, — Department of Health — 11th March 1996
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales
Rod Richards — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office — 11th March 1996
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order makes transitional provision in connection with the abolition, by the Health Authorities Act 1995 on 1st April 1996, of Regional Health Authorities, District Health Authorities and Family Health Services Authorities, and the establishment under that Act of Health Authorities to exercise functions, principally on behalf of the Secretary of State, in relation to the National Health Service.
In particular, the Order identifies the bodies which are to be the successors, for specified purposes, of bodies abolished on 1st April 1996 (article 1(2) and Schedules 1 to 4). Provision is made for the transfer to new employers of staff employed by the abolished bodies on 31st March 1996 (articles 2 and 3), for the transfer of property held on charitable trusts (article 4), for the accounts and the winding up of affairs of abolished bodies (article 5), and for their responsibilities in relation to charities connected with the health service (articles 6 and 7).
The Order also provides for the investigation on and after 1st April 1996 of complaints made against, or made to, an abolished body before that date (articles 9 and 10), for the continuation of Community Health Councils in existence on 31st March 1996 (article 11), for the appointment of members by voluntary organisations to Joint Consultative Committees between 1st April 1996 and 30th September 1996 (article 12), and for securing continuity in the exercise from 1st April 1996 of functions previously exercised by abolished bodies (articles 13 and 14).
Footnotes
[^f00001]: 1977 c. 49; section 126 was amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), section 65(2). See also section 6(6) of the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17).
[^f00002]: 1995 c. 17.
[^f00003]: 1993 c. 46.
[^f00004]: See section 90 of the National Health Service Act 1977.
[^f00005]: S.I. 1996/624.
[^f00006]: S.I. 1996/146.
[^f00007]: S.I. 1992/664, as amended by S.I. 1993/2972 and S.I. 1994/634.
[^f00008]: 1985 c. 42. Section 1 is amended by the Health Authorities Act 1995 (C.17), paragraph 109 Schedule 1.
[^f00009]: S.I. 1996/624.
[^f00010]: See section 20 of the National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49) as amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), paragraph 40 of Schedule 1, and the Health Authorities Act 1995, paragraph 11 of Schedule 1.
[^f00011]: Paragraph 7 is amended by the Health Authorities Act 1995, paragraph 62(c) of Schedule 1, with effect from 1st April 1996.
[^f00012]: S.I. 1985/304.
[^f00013]: 1990 c. 19.
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