14.—(1) This article applies where, on 31st March 2004, a patient specified in paragraph (2)—
(a)was entitled to be invited to participate in a consultation under paragraph 14(1) of Schedule 2 to the 1992 Regulations(1); and
(b)had not been given such an invitation.
(2) The patient referred to in paragraph (1) is a patient—
(a)who, on or before 31st March 2004—
(i)had applied for inclusion in a relevant medical practitioner’s list of patients under regulation 2 or 3 of the Choice Regulations and whose application had been accepted, or
(ii)had been assigned to a relevant medical practitioner’s list under regulation 4 of the Choice Regulations; and
(b)in respect of whom a Local Health Board had not granted deferment of the obligation to invite him or her to participate in a consultation under paragraph 14 of Schedule 2 to the 1992 Regulations.
(3) A patient to whom this article applies shall, on 1st April 2004, be regarded as a patient who falls within —
(a)the term of the succeeding contractor’s general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 4 of Schedule 6 to the 2004 Regulations; or
(b)the equivalent term of its default contract.
Paragraph 14 was amended by S.I. 1998/682 and 2002/1896 (W.197).