{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-and-section-17c-agreements-transitional-and-other-ancillary-provisions-scotland-order-2004/article-78",
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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/78",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "78",
  "heading": "Referrals to investigating discipline committees before the relevant date (regulation 4 of the Service Committees Regulations)",
  "text": "Where a Health Board(A) has, before the relevant date, referred a matter in respect of a doctor to another Health Board(B) in accordance with regulation 4(2)(a) or (7) and–\n(a) that matter has not been finally determined by the discipline committee of that Health Board (B) before the relevant date–\n(i) the discipline committee of Health Board (B) shall investigate the matter and report to Health Board (A), as if section 19 of the 1978 Act had not been repealed; and\n(ii) Health Board (A) shall be entitled to take any action it could have taken pursuant to the Service Committees Regulations as if section 19 of the 1978 Act had not been repealed, subject to article 80; or\n(b) Health Board (A) has received the report of the discipline committee of the Health Board (B) but has not yet determined what (if any) action to take as a result of the report, Health Board (A) shall be entitled to take any action it could have taken pursuant to the Service Committees Regulations as if section 19 of the 1978 Act had not been repealed, subject to article 80.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation 4 was amended by S.I. 1996/938 and S.S.I. 1999/53."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/163/article/78",
    "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."
}