Practice area for the purposes of default contracts
27. The area specified at its commencement in a default contract as the area as respects which persons resident in it will, subject to any other terms of the contract relating to patient registration, be entitled to register with the contractor or seek acceptance by it as a temporary resident must be–
(a)in the case of a default contract with an individual medical practitioner, the area which was that practitioner’s practice area on 31st March 2004 for the purposes of the practitioner’s arrangements under section 19 of the 1978 Act; or
(b)in the case of a default contract with a partnership, the area which covers all of the areas which were the partnership’s practice areas on 31st March 2004 for the purposes of their arrangements under section 19 of the 1978 Act.