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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-and-section-17c-agreements-transitional-and-other-ancillary-provisions-scotland-order-2004/article-4",
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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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  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Acceptance of applications for inclusion in lists of patients",
  "text": "(1) Where, on or before 31st March 2004, a relevant medical practitioner had agreed to accept a person on that medical practitioner’s list of patients pursuant to paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 to the 1995 Regulations but on 31st March 2004 the relevant medical practitioner had not yet sent the signed medical card or the application to the Health Board in accordance with sub-paragraph (3) of that paragraph, that acceptance shall be regarded on 1st April 2004 as an acceptance by the succeeding contractor and notification of that acceptance shall be sent by the succeeding contractor to the Health Board in accordance with–\n(a) the term of its general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 15(5) of Schedule 5 to the 2004 Regulations; or\n(b) the equivalent term of its default contract.\n(2) In paragraph (1), “medical card” has the same meaning as in the 2004 Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "affecting": "ssi/2018/66",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Scotland) Regulations 2018"
    },
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      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Scotland) Regulations 2018"
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      "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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  "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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