Statutory Instruments
1998 No. 1341

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Queen Mary’s Sidcup National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1998

Made
29th May 1998

Coming into force
10th 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 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 Queen Mary’s Sidcup National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1998 and shall come into force on 10th June 1998.

Amendment of NHS trust Establishment Order

2.  In Article 3 of the Queen Mary’s Sidcup National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1992(5) (functions of the trust)—

(a)in paragraph (1) for “section 5(1)(a)” there shall be substituted “section 5(1)(b)”; and

(b)for paragraph (2) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—

“(2) The trust’s functions shall be to provide and manage Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup, Kent DA14 6LT and any other premises which are for the time being associated with this hospital, and there to provide hospital accommodation and services.”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Alan Milburn
Department of Health
29th May 1998

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the Order (“the Establishment Order”) which established the Queen Mary’s Sidcup 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 Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup, Kent DA14 6LT.


(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”).

(2)
1990 c. 19; section 5 was amended by paragraph 65 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. 1992/2530.