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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-and-personal-medical-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-order-2004/article-72",
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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/72",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "72",
  "heading": "Interpretation of this Part",
  "text": "In this Part—\n“agreement” means, unless the context otherwise requires, an agreement for primary medical services made under section 28C of the 1977 Act;\n“out of hours arrangement” means—\n(a) in relation to the period before 1st April 2004, an arrangement under—\n(i) paragraph 18A(2) of Schedule 2 to the 1992 Regulations, or\n(ii) regulation 3 of the PMS Out of Hours Regulations; and\n(b) in relation to the period from 1st April 2004, means an arrangement under—\n(i) the term of a general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 7 to the 2004 Regulations (or the equivalent term of a default contract), or\n(ii) the term of an agreement which gives effect to paragraph 1(2) or (3) of Schedule 6 to the Personal Medical Services Agreements Regulations;\n“out of hours services” means services required to be provided in all or part of the out of hours period which—\n(a) would be essential services if provided in core hours; or\n(b) are included—\n(i) in a default contract as additional services funded under article 36(2) of the Transitional Order, or\n(ii) in a general medical services contract as additional services funded under the global sum;\n“PMS Out of Hours Regulations” means the National Health Service (Out of Hours Provision of Personal Medical Services and Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2003;\n“relevant body”—\n(a) in relation to the period before 1st April 2004, has the same meaning as in regulation 2(1) of the PMS Out of Hours Regulations; and\n(b) in relation to the period from 1st April 2004, has the same meaning as in regulation 2 of the Personal Medical Services Agreements Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 18A was inserted by S.I. 1996/702 and paragraph (2) was substituted, in relation to England, by S.I. 2002/2548 and amended by S.I. 2003/26."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2003/26."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/865/article/72",
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  },
  "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."
}