{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-no-1-northern-ireland-order-2004/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-no-1-northern-ireland-order-2004/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2004/141",
  "legislation_title": "The General Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions (No. 1) (Northern Ireland) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-no-1-northern-ireland-order-2004",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Entitlement to a general medical services contract",
  "text": "For the purposes of Article 5(2) of the Order, the circumstances in which a Board must enter into a general medical services contract with a person who, on 31st March 2004, is providing services under Article 56 of the 1972 Order (arrangements for general medical services) are those specified in Articles 3 to 12.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in operation at 29.3.2004, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Article 56 was amended by S.I. 1991/194 (N.I. 1) and S.I. 1997/1177(N.I. 7)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2004/141/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:58:21.157603+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."
}