Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.-(1) This Order may be cited as the Epsom and St. Helier National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 1st April 1999.

(2) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires-�

"the Act" means the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990;

"community health services" means any services which the Secretary of State may provide under section 3(1)(d) or (e) of or Schedule 1 to the National Health Service Act 1977 and any service which he has a duty to provide under section 5(1) or (1A) of that Act(4);

"operational date" has the meaning assigned to it in paragraph 3(1)(e) of Schedule 2 to the Act;

"the trust" means the Epsom and St. Helier National Health Service Trust established by article 2 of this Order.

Establishment and name of the trust

2. There is hereby established an NHS trust which shall be called the Epsom and St. Helier National Health Service Trust.

Nature and functions of the trust

3.-(1) The trust is established for the purposes specified in section 5(1)(a) of the Act.

(2) The trust's functions shall be to own and manage Epsom General Hospital, Dorking Road, Epsom, Surrey KT18 7EG, St. Helier Hospital, Wrythe Lane, Carshalton, Surrey SM5 1AA (including the management of its teaching and research facilities), and associated establishments and facilities, and there to provide and manage hospital accommodation and services, and there and from there to provide and manage community health services.

Directors of the trust

4. The trust shall have, in addition to the chairman, 5 non-executive directors and 5 executive directors.

Significant teaching commitment

5.-(1) The trust is to be regarded as having a significant teaching commitment by virtue of paragraph 3(2)(a) of Schedule 2 to the Act.

(2) One of the non-executive directors of the trust shall be appointed from the University of London.

Operational date and accounting date of the trust

6.-(1) The operational date of the trust shall be 1st April 1999.

(2) The accounting date of the trust shall be 31st March.

Restriction on disposal of assets

7. The sum specified for the purposes of paragraph 6(2)(d) of Schedule 2 to the Act (maximum value of freely disposable assets) in relation to the trust shall be £1,000,000.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order establishes the Epsom and St. Helier National Health Service Trust, an NHS trust provided for in section 5 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990. It also provides for the functions of the trust (article 3) and the number of executive and non-executive directors (article 4) and that one of the non-executive directors shall be appointed from the University of London (article 5). It specifies the operational date (the date on which the trust assumes all its functions) and the accounting date of the trust (article 6). Finally, it specifies the value of assets in excess of which the Secretary of State is to consider the disposal of the assets (article 7).

This Order should be read in conjunction with the Epsom Health Care and the St. Helier National Health Service Trusts (Dissolution) Order 1999(5).