{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-and-section-17c-agreements-transitional-and-other-ancillary-provisions-scotland-order-2004/article-58",
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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/58",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "58",
  "heading": "Health body status",
  "text": "(1) A contractor (other than one falling within paragraph (2)) which was on 31st March 2004 a health service body pursuant to the National Health Service (Pilot Schemes – Health Service Bodies) Regulations 1997 (“the 1997 Regulations”) shall be regarded as such a body after that date and regulation 8 of the Section 17C Services Agreements Regulations shall apply as if health service body status had been conferred on that contractor under that regulation.\n(2) A provider falls within this paragraph if it was a health service body only for the purpose of regulation 3(4) of the 1997 Regulations (being a party to an existing NHS contract).\n(3) A provider falling within paragraph (2) shall continue to be a health service body for the purpose of being a party to an NHS contract entered into on a date before that on which it ceased to be a pilot scheme health service body until the determination of that NHS contract.\n(4) Paragraph (3) shall also apply to a provider of personal medical services under a pilot scheme whose agreement terminated before 1st April 2004.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/2929."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2018/67",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Primary Medical Services Section 17C Agreements) (Scotland) Regulations 2018"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/163/article/58",
    "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."
}