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

Modification of the Implementation Directions for the purposes of transitional agreements

61.—(1) The modifications referred to in article 60(2)(a) are as follows.

(2) As if any reference to—

(a) the 1992 Regulations were a reference to those Regulations as they had effect on 31st March 2004 as modified by article 62; and

(b) the Choice Regulations were a reference to those Regulations as they had effect on 31st March 2004 as modified by article 63.

(3) As if for Schedule 5 to the Implementation Directions there were substituted Schedule 9 to the Personal Medical Services Agreements Regulations (PCTs specified for the purposes of repeatable prescribing), and accordingly as if any reference in those directions to Schedule 5 to those Directions were a reference to Schedule 9 to those Regulations.

(4) As if any reference to personal medical services were a reference to medical services of a kind that could have been provided by a general medical practitioner in accordance with arrangements made under Part 2 of the 1977 Act prior to 1st April 2004.

(5) As if any reference to pilot schemes or pilot scheme agreements were a reference to transitional agreements.

(6) As if any reference to a services list, medical list or supplementary list were to a medical performers list.

(7) As if any reference to regulation 6(3)(d) of the Services List Regulations or regulation 18E(1)(e) of, and Part 3 of Schedule 3 to, the 1992 Regulations were a reference to regulation 6(3)(d) of the Performers Lists Regulations.

(8) As if in direction 9, the words “under regulation 4(2)(b) of those Regulations” were omitted.

(9) As if any reference to out of hours arrangements were to out of hours arrangements within the meaning given to that expression by article 72.