East Birmingham Hospital National Health Service Trust (Change of Name) Order 1993

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1993/122
Year1993

1993 No. 122

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The East Birmingham Hospital National Health Service Trust (Change of Name) Order 1993

Made 26th January 1993

Coming into force 1st February 1993

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of powers conferred on her by section 126(3) and (4) of the National Health Service Act 19771and section 5(1) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 19902and of all other powers enabling her in that behalf hereby makes the following Order:–

S-1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the East Birmingham Hospital National Health Service Trust (Change of Name) Order 1993 and shall come into force on 1st February 1993.

(1) In this Order unless the context otherwise requires–

“the Order” means the East Birmingham Hospital National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 19913

“the trust” means the National Health Service trust established by the Order.

S-2 Change of name of NHS trust

Change of name of NHS trust

2.—(1) The trust shall be called the Birmingham Heartlands Hospital National Health Service Trust instead of the East Birmingham Hospital National Health Service Trust and accordingly in article 1 of the Order in the definition of “The trust” and in article 2 of the Order for the words “East Birmingham Hospital” there shall be substituted the words “Birmingham Heartlands Hospital”.

S-3 Transitional provisions

Transitional provisions

3. The change of name under this Order shall not–

(a) affect any right or obligation of any person;

(b) be taken as invalidating any instrument (whether made before, on or after the day on which this Order comes into force) which refers to the trust by its previous name;

and all documents and instruments which refer to the trust under its previous name shall be construed as referring to it under its new name.

Tom Sackville

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Health

26th January 1993

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order changes the name of an NHS trust established by Order under Part I of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 from the East Birmingham Hospital National Health Service Trust to the Birmingham Heartlands Hospital National Health Service Trust and makes consequential amendments to that Order and transitional provisions.


(1) 1977 c. 49; section 126(3) and (4) was amended by the National...

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