The General Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions (Wales) (No. 2) Order 2004 No. 1016 (W. 113)

SCHEDULE 1 MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS

The National Health Service Contracts (Dispute Resolution) Regulations 1996

14.  In the National Health Service Contracts (Dispute Resolution) Regulations 1996(1), after regulation 1 (citation, commencement and interpretation), insert—

“Application of these Regulations

1A.— (1) These Regulations do not apply in the case of a dispute concerning a term of —

(a) a GMS contract; or

(b) a contract entered into pursuant to section 176(3) of the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003(2).

(2) These Regulations do not apply in the case of a dispute concerning a proposed term of arrangement which is intended to be a GMS contract.

(3) In this regulation—

“GMS contract” means a general medical services contract under section 28Q of the National Health Service Act 1977(3).”.

(1)

S.I. 1996/623.

(2)

2003 c. 43.

(3)

1977 c. 49. Section 28Q was inserted into the Act by section 175(1) of the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c. 43).