The Oxfordshire Mental Healthcare National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1998

Made: 20th May 1998

Coming into force: 1st June 1998

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 126(3) of the National Health Service Act 1977¹ and section 5(1) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990² and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, having completed the consultation prescribed under section 5(2) of that latter Act³ and considering it appropriate that the functions of the trust should include functions in relation to the provision of services for one or more Health Authorities⁴, hereby makes the following Order:—

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Oxfordshire Mental Healthcare National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1998 and shall come into force on 1st June 1998.

Amendment of Establishment Order

2

In the Oxfordshire Mental Healthcare National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1993⁵—

• (a) For Article 3 there shall be substituted the following Article:—

(3) The trust’s functions (which include functions which the Secretary of State considers appropriate in relation to the provision of services by the trust for one or more Health Authorities) shall be:— (a) to own and manage pursuant to section 5(1)(a) of the Act the premises specified in Part I of the Schedule to this Order, and there to provide and manage hospital accommodation and services; (b) to provide and manage pursuant to section 5(1)(b) of the Act the premises specified in Part II of the Schedule to this Order, and there to provide and manage hospital accommodation and services; (c) to own and manage pursuant to section 5(1)(a) of the Act the premises specified in Part III of the Schedule to this Order, and there to provide and manage community health services; and (d) to provide and manage pursuant to section 5(1)(b) of the Act the premises specified in Part IV of the Schedule to this Order, and there to provide and manage community health services.

; and

• (b) at the end there shall be added the Schedule set out in the Schedule to this Order.

SCHEDULE — SCHEDULE TO BE ADDED TO THE OXFORDSHIRE MENTAL HEALTHCARE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE TRUST (ESTABLISHMENT) ORDER 1993

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Alan Milburn — Minister of State, — Department of Health — 20th May 1998

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Order (“the Establishment Order”) which established the Oxfordshire Mental Healthcare National Health Service Trust.

The Establishment Order is amended to confer on the trust the purpose specified in section 5(1)(b) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 in respect of those premises specified in Parts II and IV of the Schedule to the amended Establishment Order and, in pursuance of that purpose, extends the functions of the trust to include the function of providing and managing those premises.

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