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(1) This Order may be cited as the Maidstone and Malling Primary Care Trust Change of Name and (Establishment) Amendment Order 2002 and shall come into force on 1st April 2002.
(2) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—
 “Principal Order” means the Maidstone and Malling Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Order 2001;
 “the trust” means the Primary Care Trust established by the Principal Order.
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(1) The trust shall be called the Maidstone Weald Primary Care Trust instead of the Maidstone and Malling Primary Care Trust, and accordingly in article 1 of the Principal Order in the definition of “the trust”, and in article 2 of the Principal Order, for “Maidstone and Malling” there shall be substituted “Maidstone Weald”.
(2) The change of name effected by paragraph (1) shall not—
(a) affect any right or obligation of any person; or
(b) be taken as invalidating any instrument (whether made before, on or after the day on which this Order comes into force) which refers to the trust by its previous name,
and all instruments and other documents which refer to the trust under its previous name shall be construed as referring to it under its new name.
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For the Schedule to the Principal Order, there is substituted the following Schedule—“
SCHEDULE
Article 3


 In the borough of Maidstone Borough Council
 the electoral wards of Allington, Barming, Bearsted, Boughton Monchelsea, Boxley, Bridge, Coxheath, Detling, East, Farleigh, Harrietsham and Lenham, Headcorn, Heath, High Street, Hollingbourne, Langley, Leeds, Loose, Marden, North, Park Wood, Shepway East, Shepway West, South, Staplehurst, Sutton Valence, Thurnham, Yalding.
 In the borough of Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council
 Aylesford, Birling, Leybourne and Ryarsh, Burham, Eccles and Wouldham, Ditton, East Malling, East Peckham, Larkfield North, Larkfield South, Oast, Snodland East, Snodland West, Wateringbury, West Malling, West Peckham and Mereworth.
 In the borough of Tunbridge Wells Borough Council
 Benenden, Brenchley, Capel, Cranbrook, Frittenden and Sissinghurst, Goudhurst, Hawkhurst, Horsmonden, Lamberhurst, Paddock Wood, Pembury, Sandhurst
”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Hazel Blears
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Health
25th March 2002