Statutory Instruments
1996 No. 2731

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE,ENGLAND AND WALES
The Dorset Health Authority (Transfers of Trust Property) Order 1996

Made
28th October 1996

Laid before Parliament
4th November 1996

Coming into force
25th November 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 administration of facilities previously managed by the former South and West Regional Health Authority, having consulted Dorset Health Authority and the National Health Service trusts specified in the Schedule to the Order 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 Dorset Health Authority (Transfers of Trust Property) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 25th November 1996.

(2) In this Order—

“the Authority” means Dorset Health Authority;

“the trust property” means the property held by the Authority, known as the Former South and West Regional Health Authority Trust Fund which was transferred to the Authority on 1st April 1996 by article 2(7)(b) of the Regional Health Authorities (Transfer of Trust Property) Order 1996(2).

Transfer of trust property

2.  On 25th November 1996 there shall be transferred from the Authority to each of the bodies specified in column (1) of the Schedule to this Order such proportion of the trust property as is specified in column (2) of that Schedule in relation to that body.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

John Horam
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Health
28th October 1996

Article 2

SCHEDULEBODIES TO RECEIVE PROPORTION OF TRUST PROPERTY

(1)
(2)

Recipient body
Proportion of trust property

Dorset Ambulance National Health Service Trust
2.67%

Dorset Community National Health Service Trust
12.24%

Dorset Healthcare National Health Service Trust
20.76%

Poole Hospital National Health Service Trust
22.06%

Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals National Health Services Trust
25.74%

West Dorset General Hospitals National Health Service Trust
16.53%

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)
This Order transfers on 25th November 1996 to the National Health Service trusts specified in the Schedule to the Order trust property held by the Dorset Health Authority (article 2). The proportion of that trust property which each NHS trust is to receive is also specified in the Schedule.


(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 Schedule 1, paragraph 44 of the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17).

(2)
S.I. 1996/666, to which there is an amendment not relevant to this Order.