The North Kent Healthcare National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1994

Made: 17th March 1994

Coming into force: 1st April 1994

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

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the North Kent Healthcare National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1994, and shall come into force on 1st April 1994.

Amendment of Establishment Order

2

For paragraph (2) of article 3 of the North Kent Healthcare National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1993³ (nature and functions of the trust) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—

(2) The trust’s functions (which include functions which the Secretary of State considers appropriate in relation to the provision of services by the trust for one or more health authorities) shall be— (a) to own and manage hospital accommodation and services provided at Keycol Hospital, Newington, Nr Sittingbourne, Kent ME9 8NG and associated hospitals; (b) to manage community health services provided from Keycol Hospital, Newington, Nr Sittingbourne, Kent ME9 8NG and to own the associated premises.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Tom Sackville — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, — Department of Health — 17th March 1994

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the North Kent Healthcare National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1993 to include the ownership and management of hospital accommodation and services among the functions of the NHS trust established by that Order. As this Order has been made to correct the omission of those functions from that Order, it is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Order.

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