196New metropolitan health service to be successor in law

196 New metropolitan health service to be successor in law On the coming into existence of a metropolitan health service under an Order under section 181 which also cancels the incorporation of a metropolitan hospital— (a) all property and rights of the transferring hospital, wherever located, vest in the new health service; and (b) all liabilities of the transferring hospital, wherever located, become liabilities of the new health service; and (c) the new health service becomes the successor in law of the transferring hospital; and (d) on and from the effective date of the Order, the transferring hospital must, for the purposes of any trust in relation to that hospital, be taken not to have had its incorporation cancelled and the new health service must be taken to be the same body as the transferring hospital for those purposes. New s. 197 inserted by No. 39/2000 s. 11.