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    (2) This Order applies to England only.

    (3) In this Order "the Establishment Order" means the NHS Professionals Special Health Authority (Establishment and Constitution) Order 2003[2].

Revocation
     2. The NHS Professionals Special Health Authority (Establishment and Constitution) Amendment Order 2004[3] is revoked.

Amendment of the Establishment Order
     3. After article 5 of the Establishment Order (remuneration of members) add - 

" Transfer of rights and liabilities
     6. All rights and liabilities of a National Health Service trust or a Primary Care Trust listed in Schedule 1 relating to the activity known as NHS Professionals (being the recruitment and use of temporary staff in the health service), are transferred to the Authority and are therefore enforceable by or, as the case may be, against it.

Transfer of property
     7. All property of the National Health Service trusts listed in Schedule 2 identified as property transferring to the Authority in the document dated 26th March 2004 produced by the Department of Health and entitled "Schedule of property transferring from National Health Service trusts to NHS Professionals Special Health Authority on 1st April 2004" is transferred to the Authority.

Transfer of officers
     8.  - (1) This paragraph applies to an officer of - 


(a) a National Health Service trust listed in Schedule 2;

(b) the Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals' National Health Service Trust[4]; or

(c) the South West London Strategic Health Authority[5],



who on 31st March 2004 is wholly or mainly engaged in recruitment and use of temporary staff in the health service (being the activity known as NHS Professionals) and who was notified in a letter posted on or before 30th January 2004 that he was to be transferred to the Authority.

    (2) Any officer to whom paragraph (1) applies shall, on 1st April 2004, be transferred to the employment of the Authority.

    (3) The contract of employment of an officer transferred under paragraph (2) - 



(a) is not terminated by the transfer; and

(b) has effect from the time of the transfer as if originally made between the officer and the Authority.



    (4) Without prejudice to paragraph (3) - 



(a) all the rights, powers, duties and liabilities of the body from which an officer is transferred, under or in connection with its contract of employment with an officer transferred under paragraph (2), shall by virtue of this paragraph be transferred to the Authority; and

(b) anything done before the date of the transfer by or in relation to the body from which that officer is so transferred, in respect of such an officer or his contract of employment, shall be deemed to have been done by or in relation to the Authority.



    (5) Paragraphs (2) to (4) do not transfer an officer's contract of employment, or the rights, powers, duties and liabilities under or in connection with it, if that officer objects to the transfer to the Authority and informs the body from which he would be transferred of that objection by 31st March 2004.

    (6) Where an officer objects as mentioned in paragraph (5), his contract of employment with the body from which he would be transferred shall be terminated immediately before the date on which the transfer would occur, but he shall not be treated, for any purpose, as having been dismissed from that body.

    (7) This article is without prejudice to any right of an officer to terminate his contract of employment if a substantial change is made to his detriment in his working conditions; but no such right shall arise by reason only that, under this article, the identity of his employer changes unless the officer shows that, in all the circumstances, the change is a significant change and is to his detriment.".

Insertion of Schedules 1 and 2 in the Establishment Order
     4. There shall be inserted into the Establishment Order at the appropriate place the Schedules set out in the Schedule to this Order.



Signed by authority of the Secretary of State


John Hutton
Minister of State, Department of Health

30th March 2004

" SCHEDULE 1Article 6


Schedule of National Health Service trusts and Primary Care Trusts transferring rights and liabilities



National Health Service trust or Primary Care Trust	Establishment Order
Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals National Health Service Trust	S.I. 2000/1413
Buckinghamshire Hospitals National Health Service Trust	S.I. 2002/2419
Buckinghamshire Mental Health National Health Service Trust	S.I. 2001/333
Central Liverpool Primary Care Trust	S.I. 2001/3490
Cherwell Vale Primary Care Trust	S.I. 2001/491
Chiltern and South Bucks Primary Care Trust	S.I. 2001/3295
Christie Hospital National Health Service Trust	S.I. 1990/2407
Dudley Group of Hospitals National Health Service Trust	S.I. 1994/168
East Hampshire Primary Care Trust	S.I. 2001/331
East Lancashire Hospitals National Health Service Trust	S.I. 2002/2073
Eastleigh and Test Valley South Primary Care Trust	S.I. 2002/1119
Epping Forest Primary Care Trust	S.I. 2000/287
George Eliot Hospital National Health Service Trust	S.I. 1993/2551
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children National Health Service Trust	S.I. 1994/400
Hampshire Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust	S.I. 1992/2504
Hampshire Partnership National Health Service Trust	S.I. 2001/1198[6]
Harlow Primary Care Trust	S.I. 2000/2820
Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals' National Health Service Trust	S.I. 1991/2357
Lancashire Care National Health Service Trust	S.I. 2001/4118
Leeds Teaching Hospitals National Health Service Trust	S.I. 1998/837
Mid Yorkshire Hospitals National Health Service Trust	S.I. 2002/1341
Milton Keynes Primary Care Trust	S.I. 2000/2015
Milton Keynes General National Health Service Trust	S.I. 1991/2372
New Forest Primary Care Trust	S.I. 2001/601
Newham Healthcare National Health Service Trust	S.I. 1994/308
North Cheshire Hospitals National Health Service Trust	S.I. 2001/345
North East Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust	S.I. 2001/489
North Essex Mental Health Partnership National Health Service Trust	S.I. 2001/324
North Middlesex University Hospital National Health Service Trust	S.I. 1990/2431[7]
Nottingham City Hospital National Health Service Trust	S.I. 1991/2380
Nuffield Orthopaedic National Health Service Trust	S.I. 1990/2434
Oxford City Primary Care Trust	S.I. 2001/490
Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals National Health Service Trust	S.I. 1993/2544[8]
Oxfordshire Learning Disability National Health Service Trust	S.I. 1992/2574
Oxfordshire Mental Healthcare National Health Service Trust	S.I. 1993/2566
Pennine Care National Health Service Trust	S.I. 2001/3733
Portsmouth Hospitals National Health Service Trust	S.I. 1992/2506
Princess Alexandra Hospital National Health Service Trust	S.I. 1994/3179
Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, University Hospital National Health Service Trust	S.I. 1992/2478
Royal Berkshire and Battle Hospitals National Health Service Trust	S.I. 1992/2579
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital National Health Service Trust	S.I. 1990/2440
Royston, Buntingford and Bishop's Stortford Primary Care Trust	S.I. 2001/390
St Mary's National Health Service Trust	S.I. 1991/2395
Salford Royal Hospitals National Health Service Trust	S.I. 1994/164[9]
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals National Health Service Trust	S.I. 2000/2909
South East Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust	S.I. 2001/523
South Manchester University Hospitals National Health Service Trust	S.I. 1994/161
South Tees Hospitals National Health Service Trust	S.I. 1991/2402[10]
South West Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust	S.I. 2001/525
South Yorkshire Mental Health National Health Service Trust	S.I. 2002/1313
Southampton City Primary Care Trust	S.I. 2000/257[11]
Stockport National Health Service Trust	S.I. 2000/842
University College London Hospitals National Health Service Trust	S.I. 1996/401
Uttlesford Primary Care Trust	S.I. 2001/370
Vale of Aylesbury Primary Care Trust	S.I. 2001/268
Walsall Teaching Primary Care Trust	S.I. 2002/894[12]
Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery National Health Service Trust	S.I. 1991/2411
West Middlesex University Hospital National Health Service Trust	S.I. 1992/2585
West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance National Health Service Trust	S.I. 1992/2493
Whipps Cross University Hospital National Health Service Trust	S.I. 2000/1414[13]
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals National Health Service Trust	S.I. 1999/3473
Wycombe Primary Care Trust	S.I. 2001/3296




SCHEDULE 2Articles 7 and 8


Schedule of National Health Service trusts transferring property and officers



National Health Service trust	Establishment Order
Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals National Health Service Trust	S.I. 2000/1413
Hampshire Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust	S.I. 1992/2504
Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals National Health Service Trust	S.I. 1993/2544
Royal Berkshire and Battle Hospitals National Health Service Trust	S.I. 1992/2579
St Mary's National Health Service Trust	S.I. 1991/2395
West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance National Health Service Trust	S.I. 1992/2493"

[2] S.I. 2003/3059.back

[3] S.I. 2004/648.back

[4] S.I. 1991/2357.back

[5] S.I. 2002/553.back

[6] As amended by S.I. 2004/766.back

[7] As amended by S.I. 2001/2407.back

[8] As amended by S.I. 1994/482 and S.I. 1998/1227.back

[9] As amended by S.I. 1994/1269.back

[10] As amended by S.I. 2001/1537.back

[11] As amended by S.I. 2001/1624.back

[12] As amended by S.I. 2003/1983.back

[13] As amended by S.I. 2001/65.back

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