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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-and-section-17c-agreements-transitional-and-other-ancillary-provisions-scotland-order-2004/article-49",
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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/49",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "49",
  "heading": "Existing pilot schemes",
  "text": "Any pilot scheme under which personal medical services were being provided on 31st March 2004 shall, on the coming into force of paragraph 2 of the Schedule to the 2004 Act, be deemed to have been made under section 17C of the 1978 Act and accordingly shall not cease to have effect merely because of the repeals in paragraph 2 of the Schedule to the 2004 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 17C was inserted by the 1997 Act sections 21(2) and 41(3) and is amended by section 2 of the 2004 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/163/article/49",
    "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."
}