The General Medical Services and Section 17C Agreements (Transitional and other Ancillary Provisions) (Scotland) Order 2004

Review of approval of out of hours arrangements under general medical services contracts and default contracts

67.  Where–

(a) an approval of an out of hours arrangement granted under paragraph 17A of Schedule 1 to the 1995 Regulations is to be treated, pursuant to article 65, as an approval granted under the term of a general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 2 of Schedule 6 to the 2004 Regulations (or under the equivalent term of a default contract); and

(b) on or before 31st March 2004, the Health Board had commenced a review of its approval of that arrangement under paragraph 17B of Schedule 1 to the 1995 Regulations but had not yet made its determination,

that review shall continue as if it were a review under the term of the general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 4 of Schedule 6 to the 2004 Regulations (or under the equivalent term of the default contract), subject to the modification that the 30 days referred to in the term giving effect to paragraph 4(2) of that Schedule (or in the equivalent term of the default contract) shall be treated as beginning with the day on which the Health Board sent its notice under paragraph 17B(1) of Schedule 1 to the 1995 Regulations.