Sch 7A para 3
(1) Without prejudice to any amendment made by subsequent order, the first order to be made in relation to any NHS trust shall specify— (a) the name of the trust; (b) the functions of the trust; (c) the number of executive directors and trustees ; (d) where the trust is to be regarded as having a significant teaching commitment, a provision to secure the inclusion in the trustees referred to in paragraph (c) of a person appointed from a university with a medical or dental school specified in the order; (e) the operational date of the trust, that is to say, the date on which the trust is to begin to undertake the whole of the functions conferred on it; and (f) if a scheme is to be made under section 12B, the body (being a Health Board or the Agency) which is to make the scheme. (2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(d), an NHS trust is to be regarded as having a significant teaching commitment in the following cases— (a) if the trust is established to provide services at a hospital or other establishment or facility which, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, has a significant teaching and research commitment; and (b) in any other case, if the Secretary of State so provides in the order. (a) is employed by the university in question; and (b) would also, apart from this sub-paragraph, be regarded as employed by the trust, his employment by the trust shall be disregarded in determining whether, if appointed, he will be a trustee of the trust. (4) An order shall specify the accounting date of the trust.