{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-and-personal-medical-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-order-2004/article-46",
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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/46",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": "Temporary residents",
  "text": "Where, on the date on which the default contract ceases to have effect—\n(a) a default contractor has accepted a person as a temporary resident under the term of its default contract equivalent to paragraph 16 of Schedule 6 to the 2004 Regulations; and\n(b) its responsibility for that patient has not yet been terminated under that term,\nthe person shall be treated as if he had been accepted as a temporary resident by the general medical services contractor under the term of its general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 16 of Schedule 6 to the 2004 Regulations, subject to the modification that the reference to a period of three months in that term shall be read as a reference to a period of three months starting with the date on which the person was accepted as a temporary resident by the default contractor.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/865/article/46",
    "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."
}