214Trusts in respect of metropolitan hospitals existing on 31 July 1995

214 Trusts in respect of metropolitan hospitals existing on 31 July 1995 (1) The Governor in Council, by Order published in the Government Gazette, may, on the recommendation of the Minister, designate a metropolitan health service as the successor of a metropolitan hospital existing on 31 July 1995 and designated in the Order, for the purposes of any trust in relation to that metropolitan hospital. (2) The Minister must not recommend the designation of a metropolitan health service or metropolitan hospital under subsection (1) unless the Minister is satisfied that the metropolitan health service is the appropriate successor for the metropolitan hospital having regard, where relevant, to the campuses operated or to be operated by the metropolitan health service. (3) On and from the effective date of an Order under this section, an instrument creating a trust in relation to— (a) a metropolitan hospital designated in the Order; or (b) a former agency of which the metropolitan hospital is the successor agency— has effect and continues to have effect according to its tenor as if the trust were in relation to the metropolitan health service designated in the Order as the successor of the metropolitan hospital. (4) On and from the effective date of an Order under this section, a metropolitan health service designated in the Order must, for the purposes of any trust in relation to a metropolitan hospital designated in the Order, be taken to be the same body as that metropolitan hospital. (5) This section has effect despite anything to the contrary in sections 65D and 65F. S. 215 inserted by No. 39/2000 s. 11.