The South Lincolnshire Community and Mental Health Services National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1997

Made: 7th April 1997

Coming into force: 18th April 1997

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 126(3) of National Health Service Act 1977[^f00001] and by section 5(1) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990[^f00002] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after completion of the consultation prescribed under section 5(2) of the latter Act[^f00003], hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the South Lincolnshire Community and Mental Health Services National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1997 and shall come into force on 18th April 1997.

Amendment of NHS trust Establishment Order

2

In Article 4 of the South Lincolnshire Community and Mental Health Services National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1992[^f00004] for “5 non-executive” there shall be substituted “4 non-executive” and for “5 executive” there shall be substituted “4 executive”.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

John Horam, — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Department of Health — 7th April 1997

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the constitution of an NHS trust established by Order under Part I of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990, by reducing the numbers of non-executive directors and executive directors from 5 to 4 in each case.

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]: See S.I. 1996/653, regulation 2(3).

[^f00004]: S.I. 1992/2485.