The National Health Service (Determination of Districts) (No. 3) Order 1992

• Citation: S.I. 1992/2163
• Sections: 10

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) This Order may be cited as the National Health Service (Determination of Districts) (No. 3) Order 1992 and shall come into force on 1st October 1992.

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

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

“the material date” means 1st October 1992;

“the new authority” means North Worcestershire Health Authority established by the National Health Service (District Health Authorities) Order 1992 ;

“the old authorities” means Bromsgrove and Redditch Health Authority and Kidderminster and District Health Authority the establishment of each of which was continued by the National Health Service (District Health Authorities) Order 1990 .

Section 2 Variation of districts

(1) Bromsgrove and Redditch District and Kidderminister District are hereby abolished, and there is determined a new district to be known as North Worcestershire District, comprising the former Bromsgrove and Redditch District and the former Kidderminster District.

(2) Accordingly, in Part I of Schedule 1 to the National Health Service (Determination of Districts) Order 1981 —

(a) the entries in columns (1), (2) and (3) relating to Bromsgrove and Redditch District and Kidderminster District are omitted, and

(b) immediately before the entries relating to South Birmingham District there are inserted in columns (1), (2) and (3) the entries set out in columns (1), (2) and (3) respectively of the Schedule to this Order.

Section 3 Transfer of officers employed by District Health Authorities

(1) Except as provided by paragraph (2) of this article, any officer employed immediately before the material date by either or both of the old authorities is transferred on the material date to the employment of the new authority, and the contract of employment of that officer is modified so as to substitute as the employer the new authority.

(2) Where—

(a) this article makes provision for the transfer of an officer, and

(b) the officer in question is employed jointly by either or both of the old authorities and another person,

that provision shall have effect to transfer that officer to the employment of the new authority and that other person jointly and the contract of employment of that officer is modified so as to substitute the new authority as one of the joint employers.

Section 4 Preservation of training arrangements

Training arrangements 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 which have not been discharged before the material date, continue to apply with the substitution for the old 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 or against either of the old authorities is enforceable by or against the new authority.

Section 6 Winding up of affairs of old authorities

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

Section 7 Accounts of old authorities

Any duty imposed on either of the old authorities by section 98 of the Act, but not performed by the material date, shall be performed by the new authority 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, or any application duly made by, or any direction, authorisation or notice duly given to or by, either of the old authorities is 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 continues in force, unless it is expressed to cease to be in force sooner, 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 continues 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 the 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 are, immediately before the material date, authorised to be made available under section 65 of the Act, it continues to be authorised to be made available under that section, to the extent determined by the old authority, on or after that date until such authorisation is varied or revoked by the new authority.

Section 10 Investigation of complaints by Health Service Commissioner

(1) A complaint made under Part V of the Act to the Health Service Commissioner for England in relation to either of the old authorities, whether made before, on 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 West Midlands Regional Health Authority.