Article 40 Requirement to provide dispensing services

Where the Health Board has given notice to the default contractor under its default contract that it requires or authorises it to provide dispensing services to a patient from a date before the date on which the default contract ceases to have effect, that notice shall be regarded as a notice served on the general medical services contractor under the term of its general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 44 of Schedule 5 to the 2004 Regulations requiring or authorising it to provide dispensing services to the patient from the date on which the general medical services contract takes effect.

In this article “dispensing services” has the same meaning as in regulation 2(1) of the 2004 Regulations.