Statutory Instruments
1996 No. 2862

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

Made
14th November 1996

Laid before Parliament
21st November 1996

Coming into force
12th December 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 changes in the arrangements for the administration of hospitals and other establishments and facilities previously managed by the former Northumberland Health Authority resulting from the establishment of the National Health Service trusts specified in the Schedule to this Order, having consulted that Health Authority and those trusts 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 Northumberland Health Authority (Transfers of Trust Property) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 12th December 1996.

(2) In this Order —

“the Authority” means Northumberland Health Authority;

“the Schedule” means the Schedule to this Order;

“the trust property” means, in the case of each body specified in column (1) of the Schedule, the items specified in a schedule of trust property prepared, agreed upon and signed on behalf of the Authority and that body on the date specified in relation to that body in column (2) of the Schedule.

Transfer of trust property

2.  On 12th December 1996 the trust property shall be transferred from the Authority to each of the bodies specified in column (1) of the Schedule.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

John Horam
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department of Health
14th November 1996

Articles 1(2) and 2

SCHEDULEBODIES TO RECEIVE TRUST PROPERTY

(1)
(2)

Recipient Body
Date of Agreement

Cheviot and Wansbeck National Health Service Trust
16th September 1996

Northgate and Prudhoe National Health Service Trust
30th September 1996

Northumberland Community Health National Health Service Trust
24th September 1996

Northumberland Mental Health National Health Service Trust
19th September 1996

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order transfers on 12th December 1996 to the National Health Service trusts specified in the Schedule to the Order trust property held by the Northumberland Health Authority (article 2).

(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).