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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-and-section-17c-agreements-transitional-and-other-ancillary-provisions-scotland-order-2004/article-17",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2004/163",
  "legislation_title": "The General Medical Services and Section 17C Agreements (Transitional and other Ancillary Provisions) (Scotland) Order 2004",
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  "path": "article/17",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Independent nurse prescribers and supplementary prescribers",
  "text": "(1) Where, on or before 31st March 2004, a relevant medical practitioner had notified the Health Board of any matters relating to an independent nurse prescriber or a supplementary prescriber under paragraph 29(c) of Schedule 1 to the 1995 Regulations, the succeeding contractor shall not be required to notify the Health Board of those same matters under–\n(a) the term of its general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 58 of Schedule 5 to the 2004 Regulations; or\n(b) the equivalent term of its default contract.\n(2) In paragraph (1) “independent nurse prescriber” and “supplementary prescriber” have the same meaning as in paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the 1995 Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 29(c) of Schedule 1 was added by S.S.I. 2003/443."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2018/66",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Scotland) Regulations 2018"
    },
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      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "ssi/2004/223",
      "affecting_title": "The General Medical Services and the General Medical Services and Section 17C Agreements (Transitional and Other Ancillary Provisions Orders) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2004"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/163/article/17",
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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."
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