This document establishes the legal framework for the creation of the Cornwall Community Healthcare National Health Service Trust. The order, issued by the Secretary of State for Health under the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990, defines the statutory basis for the trust's operation, its governing board, and its administrative responsibilities within the National Health Service structure.

Legal professionals and historians of the British healthcare system utilize this document as a primary source for understanding the structural reorganization of the NHS in the early 1990s. The text is highly technical and serves as a formal record of administrative law rather than a narrative analysis.