{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/380",
  "legislation_title": "General Medical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-regulations-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Scope and terms of service",
  "text": "(1) The arrangements with doctors for the provision of general medical services which it is the duty of a Board under Articles 17(1)(b) and 56 of the Order to make, shall include arrangements for the provision of—\n(a) all necessary and appropriate personal medical services of the type usually provided by general practitioners;\n(b) child health surveillance services;\n(c) contraceptive services, that is to say—\n(i) the giving of advice to women on contraception;\n(ii) the medical examination of women seeking such advice;\n(iii) the contraceptive treatment of such women; and\n(iv) the supply to such women of contraceptive substances and appliances;\n(d) maternity medical services; and\n(e) minor surgery services.\n(2) The arrangements referred to in paragraph (1) shall incorporate the terms of service set out in Schedule 2, and Schedules 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13, shall have effect for the purposes of paragraphs 36, 38, 42, 49(1), 49(2), 51 and 56, respectively of the terms of service.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in operation at 6.10.1997, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Article 56 was amended by Article 12 of S.I. 1978/1907 (N.I. 26), Article 5 of S.I. 1981/432, Article 7 of S.I. 1986/2229 (N.I. 24) and Article 29 of, and Part I of Schedule 6 to, S.I. 1991/194 (N.I. 1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1997/380",
      "affecting_title": "General Medical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/380/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:27:33.456843+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."
}