Statutory Instruments
1998 No. 1213

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Cumbria Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1998

Made
12th May 1998

Coming into force
26th May 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), hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Cumbria Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1998 and shall come into force on 26th May 1998.

Amendment of NHS trust Establishment Order

2.  In Article 4 of the Cumbria Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1992(4) for “4 non-executive” there shall be substituted “3 non-executive” and for “4 executive” there shall be substituted “3 executive”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.

Alan Milburn
Minister of State,
Department of Health
12th May 1998

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the constitution of an NHS trust established by Order under Part I of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990, by reducing the numbers of non-executive directors and executive directors from 4 to 3 in each case.


(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) 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(3).

(4)
S.I. 1992/2546, as amended by S.I. 1995/92.