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

Interpretation

94.—(1) In this Part—

“the Service Committees Regulations” means the National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) Regulations 1992(1);

“amendments” in respect of any regulation or regulations in the Service Committees Regulations means amendments made to that regulation or those regulations by paragraph 10 of Schedule 1 to this Order;

“appropriate Primary Care Trust” has the same meaning as in the Service Committees Regulations;

“contracting PCT” means a Primary Care Trust that has entered into a default contract or a general medical services contract (as the case may be) with—

(a)

a doctor who is the subject of the allegation,

(b)

a partnership, where a doctor who is the subject of the allegation is a partner,

(c)

a limited company, where a doctor who is the subject of the allegation is a legal and beneficial shareholder of shares in that company;

“doctor” has the same meaning as in the Service Committees Regulations;

“the Performers List PCT” means the Primary Care Trust in whose medical performers list the doctor’s name appears on 1st April 2004;

“relevant contractor” means a party to a general medical services contract or default contract with a contracting PCT, where that contractor is—

(a)

a doctor who is the subject of the allegation,

(b)

a partnership, where a doctor who is or was the subject of the allegation is a partner in that partnership,

(c)

a limited company, where a doctor who is or was the subject of the allegation is a legal and beneficial shareholder of shares in that company; and

“relevant date” means 1st April 2004.

(2) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in this Part to—

(a) a numbered regulation is to the regulation bearing that number in the Service Committees Regulations; and

(b) a numbered Schedule is to the Schedule to the Service Committees Regulations bearing that number.

(1)

S.I. 1992/664 as amended by S.I. 1996/703, 1998/674, 2002/2469 and 2003/1397.