# The General Medical Services and Section 17C Agreements (Transitional and other Ancillary Provisions) (Scotland) Order 2004, Article 5: Removal from the list of patients at the request of the patient


Where, on or before 31st March 2004, a Health Board had received notice from a patient under regulation 25(1) of the 1995 Regulations that the patient wished to be removed from a relevant medical practitioner’s list of patients but on 31st March 2004 that removal had not yet taken effect in accordance with that regulation, the removal shall take effect as a removal from the list of patients of the succeeding contractor as if it were a removal pursuant to a request received by the Health Board in accordance with–
(a) the term of the succeeding contractor’s general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 19 of Schedule 5 to the 2004 Regulations, subject to the modification that the reference to the period of 14 days in the term which gives effect to paragraph 19(3)(b) shall be read as a reference to the period of 14 days after the date on which the request made under regulation 25(1) of the 1995 Regulations was received by the Health Board; or
(b) the equivalent term of its default contract, subject to a modification to the same effect.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/163/article/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-and-section-17c-agreements-transitional-and-other-ancillary-provisions-scotland-order-2004/article-5
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