Article 51 Interpretation of transitional agreements

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

art. 51(4) words substituted by National Health Service (Primary Medical Services Section 17C Agreements) 2018 Sch. 8 para. 3(3)(a)
art. 51(4) words substituted by National Health Service (Primary Medical Services Section 17C Agreements) 2018 Sch. 8 para. 3(3)(b)
art 51 am by General Medical Services and the General Medical Services and Section 17C Agreements (Transitional and Other Ancillary Provisions Orders) 2004 art 3(1), (9)

(1)

Until–

(a)

the parties to a transitional agreement vary the transitional agreement in accordance with article 50(1) and the variations have effect; or

(b)

the relevant body varies a transitional agreement in accordance with article 50(3) and the variations have effect,

a transitional agreement shall interpreted in accordance with this article.

(2)

Any reference in a transitional agreement to–

(a)

the Implementation Directions shall be a reference to those Directions as they had effect on 31st March 2004 but subject to the modifications mentioned in article 52;

(b)

the 1995 Regulations shall be a reference to those Regulations as they had effect on 31st March 2004 but subject to the modifications mentioned in article 53;

(c)

the Statement of Fees and Allowances made under regulation 35 of the 1995 Regulations shall be a reference to that Statement as it had effect on 31st March 2004;

(d)

the Choice Regulations shall be a reference to those Regulations as they had effect on 31st March 2004 but subject to the modifications mentioned in article 54 except as specified in paragraph (3);

(e)

the National Health Service (Pilot Schemes: Miscellaneous Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1998^f1 shall be a reference to those regulations as they had effect on 31st March 2004;

(f)

in relation to the 1997 Act–

(i)

section 2(2), (b), (c), (d), or (e), shall be a reference to section 17D(1)(b), (c), (d), or (e) of the 1978 Act^f2; and

(ii)

section 8, shall be a reference to Article 57(1) and (2);

(g)

personal medical services shall be a reference to 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;

(h)

pilot schemes or pilot scheme agreements shall be a reference to transitional agreements;

(i)

a medical list or supplementary list shall be a reference to a primary medical services performers list;

(j)

out of hours arrangements shall be a reference to out of hours arrangements within the meaning given to that expression by article 62.

(3)

In relation to the assignment of a patient to a medical practitioner in accordance with regulation 5 of the Choice Regulations^f3, any reference in a transitional agreement to regulation 4(2)(b) of those regulations shall be deemed to be a reference to article 55(1).

(4)

The transitional agreement shall be interpreted as if it had been varied to include a term or terms having the effect specified in paragraph 66 of Schedule 1 to the Section 17C Agreements Regulations, subject to the modifications that the reference in that term to a person falling within the cases specified in paragraph 66(3) during the existence of the agreement shall be read as if it referred to a person so falling on or after 1st April 2004.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 1998/646.
f2: Section 17D was inserted by the 1997 Act, sections 21(2) and 40(3) and is amended by the 2004 Act section 2.
f3: Regulation 5 was amended by S.S.I. 2000/191 and S.S.I. 2001/85