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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/48",
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  "number": "48",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "In this Part–\n“the 1997 Act” means the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997;\n“the Implementation Directions” means the Directions to Health Boards concerning the Implementation of Pilot Schemes (Personal Medical Services);\n“the NHS dispute resolution procedure” means the procedure for resolution of disputes specified in Part 7 of Schedule 1 to the Section 17C Agreements Regulations;\n“personal medical services” means medical services of a kind that could have been provided by a general medical practitioner in accordance with arrangements made under Part 2 of the 1978 Act prior to 1st April 2004;\n“pilot scheme agreement” means an agreement which constitutes or agreements which together constitute a pilot scheme under Part 1 of the 1997 Act under which personal medical services are provided;\n“provider” means the person other than the Health Board who is a party to a transitional agreement;\n“relevant body” means the Health Board who is the other party to the transitional agreement.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1997 c. 46."
    }
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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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