The National Health Service (Determination of Districts) Amendment Order 1988

• Citation: S.I. 1988/407
• Sections: 14

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) This Order may be cited as the National Health Service (Determination of Districts) Amendment Order 1988 and shall come into force on 1st April 1988.

(2) In this Order unless the context otherwise requires—

“ the Act ” means the National Health Service Act 1977;

“the material date” means 1st April 1988;

“the new authority” means Parkside Health Authority constituted by the National Health Service (Constitution of District Health Authority) Order 1988 ;

“the old authorities” means Paddington and North Kensington Health Authority and Brent Health Authority constituted by the National Health Service (Constitution of District Health Authorities) Order 1981 .

Section 2 Variation of district

(1) The district of Brent Health Authority is hereby abolished.

(2) The district of Paddington and North Kensington Health Authority shall be varied so as to include the London borough of Brent and shall be known as Parkside District.

(3) Accordingly in Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the National Health Service (Determination of Districts) Order 1981 the entries in column (2)“Brent District” and“Paddington and North Kensington District” and any entries in column (1) or (3) relating to them shall be omitted and after the entries relating to North West Hertfordshire District there shall be inserted in the appropriate columns the following entries—

In Greater London—

The London borough of Brent;

The city of Westminster (except the wards of Baker Street, Bryanston, Cavendish, Churchill, Church Street, Hamilton Terrace, Knightsbridge, Lords, Millbank, Regents Park, St George's, St James's, Victoria, and West End);

In the Royal borough of Kensington and Chelsea, the wards of Avondale, Colville, Golbourne, Kelfield, Norland, Pembridge and St Charles

Section 3 Transfer of officers

Any officer employed by either of the old authorities immediately before the material date shall on the material date be transferred to the employment of the new authority and the contract of employment between such officer and the authority by which he was employed shall be modified so as to substitute as the employer the new authority.

Section 4 Preservation of training arrangements

Where arrangements have been made by either of the old authorities under which any officer transferred by this Order is undergoing, or is to undergo, a course of training or has entered, or is going to enter, into an apprenticeship and those arrangements have not been discharged before the material date, those arrangements shall continue to apply with the substitution for that authority of the new authority.

Section 5 Enforceability of rights and liabilities

Subject to the following provisions of this Order any right which was enforceable by and any liability which was enforceable against either of the old authorities shall be enforceable by or against the new authority.

Section 6 Winding up of affairs of old authorities

It shall be the duty of the new authority to take, in accordance with such directions as may be given by the North West Thames Regional Health Authority, such action as may be necessary for winding up the affairs of the old authorities.

Section 7 Accounts of old authorities

Where, on the material date, either of the old authorities has not performed in respect of any period before the material date any duty imposed on that authority by section 98 of the Act it shall be the duty of the new authority to perform that duty in accordance with the provisions of that section, any regulations made under that section and any directions which may be given by the Secretary of State.

Section 8 Provision for continuity in exercise of functions

(1) Anything duly done by, and any application duly made by, or any direction, authorisation or notice duly given to or by either of the old authorities shall be deemed to have been duly done by, or made by or given to or by the new authority.

(2) Any instrument made by either of the old authorities shall continue in force until it is varied or revoked by the new authority.

(3) Any form supplied by either of the old authorities and any form supplied by the Secretary of State relating to either of the old authorities shall continue to be a valid form in relation to the new authority until it is cancelled or withdrawn by the Secretary of State or the new authority, as if any reference contained in such a form to either of the old authorities were a reference to the new authority.

Section 9 Accommodation and services made available on payment of charges

To the extent that any accommodation and services at any hospital in the district of either of the old authorities is, immediately before the material date, authorised by the Secretary of State to be made available under section 65(1) or section 66(1) of the Act it shall continue to be authorised to be made available under the appropriate section, to the extent determined, on or after that date until such authorisation is varied or revoked by the Secretary of State.

Section 10 Investigation of complaints by Health Service Commissioner

(1) A complaint under Part V of the Act to the Health Service Commissioner for England in relation to either of the old authorities, whether made before or after the material date, may be investigated by that Commissioner notwithstanding the abolition of that authority as if the complaint had been made in relation to the new authority.

(2) The Health Service Commissioner for England, where he conducts such an investigation, shall send a report of the result of his investigation to the new authority and to the North West Thames Regional Health Authority.

Section 11 Appointment to act on behalf of persons unable to act for themselves

Any appointment made by the Secretary of State for the purposes of the Family Income Supplements Act 1970 , the Social Security Act 1975 , the Industrial Injuries and Diseases (Old Cases) Act 1975 , the Child Benefit Act 1975 or the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976 , of either of the old authorities or of a person holding a specified office with either of the old authorities to exercise, on behalf of a person unable to act by reason of mental or other incapacity, any right which such person may have under any of those Acts, shall continue to be a valid appointment as if any reference therein to that authority or a person holding the said office were a reference to the new authority.

Section 12 Transfer of trust property of old authorities

The trust property vested immediately before the appointed date in either of the old authorities shall on the material date be transferred to the new authority.

Section 13 Exercise of powers in relation to trusts

Where, immediately before the material date, any power to appoint trustees of a charity connected with health service purposes is under the trusts of the charity vested in either of the old authorities that power shall on the material date vest in the new authority.

Section 14 Appointment of new trustees

Where, under the trusts of a charity connected with health service purposes, the charity trustees immediately before the material date include an officer of either of the old authorities, the trustees shall instead include the holder of the corresponding office with the new authority.