The Swansea (1999) National Health Service Trust (Change of Name) Order 1999

Made: 21st April 1999

Coming into force: 17th May 1999

The Secretary of State for Wales, in exercise of powers conferred by section 126(3) and (4) of the National Health Service Act 1977¹, section 5(1) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990², section 25 of the Welsh Language Act 1993³ and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after completion of the consultation prescribed under section 5(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990⁴, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1

• (1) This Order may be cited as the Swansea (1999) National Health Service Trust (Change of Name) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 17th May 1999.

• (2) In this Order–

• “the Order” means the Swansea (1999) National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1998⁵;

• “the trust” means the National Health Service trust established by the Order.

Change of name of NHS Trust

2

The trust shall be called the Swansea National Health Service Trust or Ymddiriedolaeth Gwasanaeth Iechyd Gwladol Abertawe instead of the Swansea (1999) National Health Service Trust or Ymddiriedolaeth Gwasanaeth Iechyd Gwladol Abertawe (1999), and accordingly in Article 1 of the Order in the definition of “the trust”, and in Article 2 of the Order, the expression “(1999)” shall be omitted.

Transitional provisions

3

The change of name under this Order shall not–

• (a) affect any right or obligation of any person; or

• (b) be taken as invalidating any instrument (whether made before, on or after the day on which this Order comes into force) which refers to the trust by its previous name; and all instruments and other documents which refer to the trust under its previous name shall be construed as referring to it under its new name.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Jon Owen Jones — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office — 21st April 1999

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order changes the name of an NHS Trust established by Order under section 5 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 from the Swansea (1999) National Health Service Trust to the Swansea National Health Service Trust. It also changes the trust’s Welsh name, makes consequential amendments to the trust’s establishment Order and makes transitional provisions.

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