Article 18 Additional services in general medical services contracts entered into following a default contractI1

Where, after 31st March 2004, a Board enters into a general medical services contract pursuant to Article 3 or 5 with a person who, immediately before the coming into operation of that general medical services contract, is a party to a default contract with that Board, that general medical services contract must require the contractor to provide in core hours to his registered patients and persons accepted by him as temporary residents such of the additional services as were required to be provided under the default contract, except to the extent that, prior to the signing of the general medical services contract, the Board which is a prospective party to that contract has accepted in writing a written request from the contractor that the general medical services contract should not require him to provide all or any of those additional services.