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18.—(1) The contractor may, if the contractor’s list of patients is open, accept an application for inclusion in that list made by or on behalf of any person whether or not that person is resident in the contractor’s practice area or is included, at the time of the application, in the list of patients of another contractor or provider of primary medical services.
(2) If the contractor’s list of patients is closed, the contractor may only accept an application for inclusion in that list made by or on behalf of a person who is an immediate family member of a registered patient whether or not that person is resident in the contractor’s practice area or is included, at the time of the application, in the list of patients of another contractor or provider of primary medical services.
(3) Subject to sub-paragraph (4), an application for inclusion in a contractor’s list of patients must be made by delivering to the contractor’s practice premises a medical card or an application signed (in either case) by the applicant or a person authorised by the applicant to sign on the applicant’s behalf.
(4) An application may be made—
(a)where the patient is a child, on behalf of the patient by—
(i)either parent, or in the absence of both parents, the guardian or other adult who has care of the child,
(ii)a person duly authorised by a local authority to whose care the child has been committed under the Children Act 1989(1), or
(iii)a person duly authorised by a voluntary organisation by which the child is being accommodated under the provisions of the Children Act 1989; or
(b)where the patient is an adult who lacks capacity to make such an application, or to authorise such an application to be made on their behalf, by—
(i)a relative of that person,
(ii)the primary carer of that person,
(iii)a donee of a lasting power of attorney granted by that person, or
(iv)a deputy appointed for that person by the court under the provisions of the Mental Capacity Act 2005(2).
(5) Where a contractor accepts an application for inclusion in the contractor’s list of patients, the contractor must give notice in writing to the Board of that acceptance as soon as possible.
(6) The Board must, on receipt of a notice given under sub-paragraph (5)—
(a)include the applicant in the contractor’s list of patients from the date on which the notice is received; and
(b)give notice in writing to the applicant (or, in the case of a child or an adult who lacks capacity, the person making the application on their behalf) of that acceptance.
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