{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-and-section-17c-agreements-transitional-and-other-ancillary-provisions-scotland-order-2004/article-23",
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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",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-and-section-17c-agreements-transitional-and-other-ancillary-provisions-scotland-order-2004",
  "path": "article/23",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Reports to a medical officer",
  "text": "(1) Where, on or before 31st March 2004, a relevant medical practitioner had received a request for information or an inquiry from a medical officer (or an officer of the Department for Work and Pensions on his behalf or at his direction) under paragraph 34 of Schedule 1 to the 1995 Regulations but, on 31st March 2004, he had not yet responded to that request or inquiry, the succeeding contractor shall respond as if the request or inquiry had been made under–\n(a) the term of its general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 72 of Schedule 5 to the 2004 Regulations; or\n(b) the equivalent term of its default contract.\n(2) In this article, “medical officer” means a medical practitioner who is–\n(a) employed or engaged by the Department for Work and Pensions; or\n(b) provided by an organisation in pursuance of a contract entered into with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 34 of Schedule 1 was substituted by S.I. 1998/660."
    }
  ],
  "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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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/163/article/23",
    "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."
}