Statutory Instruments
1998 No. 2485

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES
The East Yorkshire Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1998

Made
5th October 1998

Coming into force
19th October 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 1977(1) and section 5(1) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990(2) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after completion of the consultation prescribed under section 5(2) of the latter Act(3), considering it appropriate that the functions of the trust should include functions in relation to the provision of services for one or more Health Authorities(4), hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the East Yorkshire Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1998 and shall come into force on 19th October 1998.

Amendment of NHS trust Establishment Order

2.  For article 3 of the East Yorkshire Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1992(5) (functions of the trust) there shall be substituted the following article–

“Nature and functions of the Trust

3.—(1) The trust is established for the purposes specified in section 5(1) of the Act.

(2) 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 to provide and manage pursuant to section 5(1)(b) of the Act the following premises:

Castle Hill Hospital, Castle Road, Cottingham, HU16 5JQ;

Westwood Hospital, Woodland Drive, Beverley, HU17 8BU; and any associated premises,

and there to provide and manage hospital accommodation and services.”

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.

Alan Milburn
Minister of State,
Department of Health
5th October 1998

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the Order (“the Establishment Order”) which established the East Yorkshire Hospitals 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 to provide and manage Castle Hill Hospital, Castle Road, Cottingham, HU16 5JQ and Westwood Hospital, Woodland Drive, Beverley HU17 8BU.


(1)
1977 c. 49; section 126(3) was amended by section 65(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”) and by paragraph 57 of Schedule 1 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17) (“the 1995 Act”) and by section 41(10) and paragraph 27 of Schedule 2 to the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46).

(2)
1990 c. 19. Section 5 was amended by paragraph 69 of Schedule 1 to the 1995 Act.

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

(4)
See section 5(6) of the 1990 Act.

(5)
S.I. 1992/2500.