The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Wales) Regulations 2004

Notice provisions specific to a contract with two or more individuals practising in partnership

84.—(1) A contractor which is a partnership shall give notice in writing to the Local Health Board forthwith when —

(a)a partner leaves or informs his or her partners that he or she intends to leave the partnership, and the date upon which he or she left or will leave the partnership;

(b)a new partner joins the partnership;

(2) A notice under sub-paragraph (1)(b) shall —

(a)state the date that the new partner joined the partnership;

(b)confirm that the new partner is a medical practitioner, or that the new partner satisfies the conditions specified in section 28S(2)(b)(i) to (iv) of the Act ;

(c)confirm that the new partner meets the conditions imposed by regulations 4 and 5; and

(d)state whether the new partner is a general or a limited partner.