{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-and-personal-medical-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-order-2004/article-55",
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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/55",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "Grounds for termination of the general medical services contract",
  "text": "Where, on or before the date on which the default contract ceases to have effect—\n(a) circumstances arise which would entitle the Primary Care Trust on or before that date to terminate the default contract under the term of the default contract equivalent to paragraph 113 of Schedule 6 to the 2004 Regulations; and\n(b) the Primary Care Trust has not terminated the default contract on those grounds,\nthose circumstances shall, for the purposes of the term of the general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 113 of Schedule 6 to the 2004 Regulations, be regarded as if they had arisen during the existence of the general medical services contract.",
  "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/55",
    "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."
}