Statutory Instruments
1996 No. 1433

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Grantham and District Hospital National Health Service Trust (Transfer of Trust Property) Order 1996

Made
4th June 1996

Laid before Parliament
10th June 1996

Coming into force
1st July 1996

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 92(1) of the National Health Service Act 1977(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, having regard to the change in the arrangements for the administration of hospitals and other establishments and facilities previously managed by the former Lincolnshire Health Authority resulting from the establishment of the Grantham and District Hospital National Health Service Trust(2), having consulted that Health Authority(3) and that Trust in accordance with section 92(3) of that Act, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Grantham and District Hospital National Health Service Trust (Transfer of Trust Property) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 1st July 1996.

(2) In this Order—

“the Authority” means the Lincolnshire Health Authority established on 1st April 1996(4);

“the old Authority” means the Lincolnshire Health Authority established on 1st April 1994(5) and abolished on 1st April 1996(6);

“the Trust” means the Grantham and District Hospital National Health Service Trust;

“the trust property” means the items specified in a schedule of trust property prepared by and agreed upon by the old Authority and the Trust on 10th January 1996, which schedule has been signed on behalf of both the old Authority and the Trust.

Transfer of trust property

2.  On 1st July 1996 the trust property shall be transferred from the Authority to the Trust.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

John Horan
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Health
4th June 1996

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order transfers to the Grantham and District Hospital National Health Service Trust on 1st July 1996 trust property held by the Lincolnshire Health Authority. A copy of the schedule of trust property to which the Order refers can be obtained from the Department of Health, NHS Trust Unit, Room 1W29, Quarry House, Quarry Hill, Leeds LS2 7UE.


(1)
1977 c. 49; section 92 has been amended by section 11(5) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) and by paragraph 44 of Schedule 1 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17).

(2)
See S.I. 1994/3175.

(3)
See Articles 4 and 14(1) and (1A) of S.I. 1996/709, as respectively amended and substituted by Article 2(3) and (5)(a) of S.I. 1996/971.

(4)
See S.I. 1996/624.

(5)
See S.I. 1994/680.

(6)
See section 1(1) of the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17).