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(1) This Order may be cited as the Sheffield Children’s Hospital National Health Service Trust Change of Name and (Establishment) Amendment Order 2002 and shall come into force on 1st April 2002.
(2) In this Order—
 “the Order” means the Sheffield Children’s Hospital National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1991;
 “the trust” means the National Health Service trust established by the Order.
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(1) The trust shall be called the Sheffield Children’s National Health Service Trust instead of the Sheffield Children’s Hospital National Health Service Trust, and accordingly in article 1 of the Order in the definition of “the trust”, and in article 2 of the Order, for “Sheffield Children’s Hospital” there shall be substituted “Sheffield Children's”.
(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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(1) For article 3 of the Order (nature and functions of the trust) there shall be substituted the following article—“
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(1) The trust is established for the purposes specified in section 5(1) of the Act.
(2) The trust’s functions shall be to provide goods and services, namely hospital accommodation and services and community health services, for the purposes of the health service at or from Sheffield Children’s Hospital, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TH, and at or from any associated hospitals, establishments or facilities.”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
Yvette Cooper
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Health
21st March 2002