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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-and-section-17c-agreements-transitional-and-other-ancillary-provisions-scotland-order-2004/article-8",
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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",
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  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Removals from the list of patients who have moved",
  "text": "Where, on or before 31st March 2004, a Health Board had given a relevant medical practitioner notice in writing, in accordance with regulation 25(3) of the 1995 Regulations, that it intended to remove a person from the practitioner’s list of patients but the six months referred to in that regulation had not yet expired, that notice shall be regarded as if it had been given to the succeeding contractor under–\n(a) the term of its general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 24 of Schedule 5 to the 2004 Regulations, subject to the modification that the reference to the period of six months in the term which gives effect to paragraph 24(a) shall be read as a reference to six months from the date of the notice given by the Health Board under regulation 25(3) of the 1995 Regulations; or\n(b) the equivalent term of its default contract, subject to a modification to the same effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation 25 was amended by S.S.I. 1999/54."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2018/66",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Scotland) Regulations 2018"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2018/66",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Scotland) Regulations 2018"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/163/article/8",
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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."
}