The General Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions (Wales) Order 2004

Entitlement to a general medical services contract of persons nominated under regulation 18C of the 1992 Regulations

8.—(1) Where, on 31st March 2004, a Local Health Board has nominated a medical practitioner for a vacancy under regulation 18C of the 1992 Regulations but has not yet entered his or her name on its medical list in accordance with regulation 18F(1) of those Regulations, that person shall, unless a medical practitioner who was not nominated for that vacancy makes a successful appeal under article 9—

(a) be added to the medical performers list of the Local Health Board, unless he or she is already on the medical performers list of another Local Health Board and is not withdrawing from that list; and

(b) subject to paragraph (2), be entitled to enter into a general medical services contract as an individual medical practitioner from—

(i) 31st March 2004,

(ii) expiry of the period for bringing an appeal pursuant to article 9, or

(iii) final determination or withdrawal of any appeal dealt with under article 9,

whichever is the later.

(2) A person who is entitled to enter into a general medical services contract under paragraph (1) shall, subject to article 12, only continue to be so entitled—

(a) until 30th June 2004; or

(b) in a case where an appeal falls to be dealt with under article 9, until the end of the period of six weeks after the final determination or withdrawal of that appeal,

unless article 11 applies.