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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-and-section-17c-agreements-transitional-and-other-ancillary-provisions-scotland-order-2004/article-76",
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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/76",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "76",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Part–\n“appropriate Health Board” has the same meaning as in the Service Committees Regulations;\n“contracting Health Board” means a Health Board that has entered into a default contract or a general medical services contract (as the case may be) with–\n(a) a doctor who is the subject of the allegation;\n(b) a partnership, where a doctor who is the subject of the allegation is a partner;\n(c) a limited company, where a doctor who is the subject of the allegation is the legal and beneficial shareholder of shares in that company;\n“doctor” has the same meaning as in the Service Committees Regulations;\n“Performers List Health Board” means a Health Board in whose primary medical services performers list the doctor’s name appears on 1st April 2004 pursuant to article 86;\n“relevant contractor” means a party to a general medical services contract or default contract with a contracting Health Board, where that contractor is–\n(a) a doctor who is the subject of the allegation;\n(b) a partnership, where a doctor who is or was the subject of the allegation is a partner in that partnership;\n(c) a limited company, where a doctor who is or was the subject of the allegation is the legal and beneficial shareholder of shares in that company; and\n“relevant date” means 1st April 2004.\n“the Service Committees Regulations” means the National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) (Scotland) Regulations 1992;\n(2) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in this Part to–\n(a) a numbered regulation is to the regulation bearing that number in the Service Committees Regulations; and\n(b) a numbered Schedule is to the Schedule to the Service Committees Regulations bearing that number.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/434. Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1994/3138, 1996/938, 1998/1424 and S.S.I. 1999/53."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/163/article/76",
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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."
}