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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-and-personal-medical-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-order-2004/article-26",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/865",
  "legislation_title": "The General Medical Services and Personal Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-and-personal-medical-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-order-2004",
  "path": "article/26",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Inquiries about prescriptions and referrals",
  "text": "Where, on or before 31st March 2004, a relevant medical practitioner had received an inquiry about prescriptions or referrals from a Primary Care Trust under paragraph 49 of Schedule 2 to the 1992 Regulations but had not yet responded to that inquiry, the succeeding contractor shall respond as if the inquiry had been made under—\n(a) the term of its general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 79 of Schedule 6 to the 2004 Regulations; or\n(b) the equivalent term of its default contract.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 49 was amended by S.I. 2002/2469 and 2003/1084."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/865/article/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:28:55.868400+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}