The General Medical Services and Personal Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2004

Acceptance of temporary residents

11.—(1) This article applies where—

(a) on or before 31st March 2004, a relevant medical practitioner had accepted a person as a temporary resident under paragraph 7(b) of Schedule 2 to the 1992 Regulations(1); and

(b) on 31st March 2004, his responsibility for that patient had not yet been terminated under paragraphs 9 and 10 of that Schedule(2) or the period for which the person was accepted as a temporary resident had not yet come to an end.

(2) In a case to which this article applies, the person shall, on 1st April 2004, be treated as if he had been accepted as a temporary resident by the succeeding contractor under—

(a) the term of its general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 16 of Schedule 6 to the 2004 Regulations, subject to the modification that reference to a period of three months in that term shall be read as a reference to a period of three months starting with the date on which the person was accepted as a temporary resident by the relevant medical practitioner under paragraph 7 of Schedule 2 to the 1992 Regulations; or

(b) the equivalent term of its default contract subject to a modification to the same effect.

(1)

Paragraph 7 was amended by S.I. 1998/682.

(2)

Paragraph 9 was amended by S.I. 1994/633, 1998/682 and 2002/2469; paragraph 10 was amended by S.I. 2002/2469.