{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-and-section-17c-agreements-transitional-and-other-ancillary-provisions-scotland-order-2004/article-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-and-section-17c-agreements-transitional-and-other-ancillary-provisions-scotland-order-2004/article-14.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2004/163",
  "legislation_title": "The General Medical Services and Section 17C Agreements (Transitional and other Ancillary Provisions) (Scotland) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-and-section-17c-agreements-transitional-and-other-ancillary-provisions-scotland-order-2004",
  "path": "article/14",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Newly registered patients",
  "text": "(1) This article applies where, on 31st March 2004, a patient specified in paragraph (2)–\n(a) was entitled to be invited to participate in a consultation under paragraph 14(1) of Schedule 1 to the 1995 Regulations; and\n(b) had not been given such an invitation.\n(2) The patient referred to in paragraph (1) is a patient–\n(a) who, on or before 31st March 2004–\n(i) had applied for inclusion in a relevant medical practitioner’s list of patients under regulation 2 or 3 of the Choice Regulations and whose application had been accepted; or\n(ii) had been assigned to a relevant medical practitioner’s list under regulation 4 of the Choice Regulations; and\n(b) in respect of whom a Health Board had not granted deferment of the obligation to invite him to participate in a consultation under paragraph 14 of Schedule 1 to the 1995 Regulations.\n(3) A patient to whom this article applies shall, on 1st April 2004 be regarded as a patient who falls within–\n(a) the term of the succeeding contractor’s general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 4 of Schedule 5 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 14 of Schedule 1 was amended by S.I. 1998/660."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Regulation 2 was amended by S.S.I. 2001/85 and Regulation 3 was amended by S.S.I. 2000/191 and S.S.I. 2001/85."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Regulation 4 was amended by S.S.I. 2000/191 and S.S.I. 2001/85."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2018/66",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Scotland) Regulations 2018"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/163/article/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:31:52.079575+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."
}