{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-and-personal-medical-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-order-2004/article-70",
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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/70",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "70",
  "heading": "Assignment of patients",
  "text": "Where, on 31st March 2004, a person had applied to a Primary Care Trust for assignment to a medical practitioner under regulation 4 of the Choice Regulations but that application had not yet been determined, the Primary Care Trust shall—\n(a) require a contractor to assign the person to a medical practitioner who performs personal medical services under a transitional agreement in accordance with article 64(1);\n(b) assign the patient in accordance with the terms of the contract, to—\n(i) a default contractor,\n(ii) a general medical services contractor, or\n(iii) a person who is a party to a personal medical services agreement; or\n(c) otherwise make arrangements for the applicant to be provided with essential services (or their equivalent) in the area of the Primary Care Trust.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation 4 was amended by S.I. 1999/3179 and 2002/2469."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/865/article/70",
    "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."
}