{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-no-1-northern-ireland-order-2004/article-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-no-1-northern-ireland-order-2004/article-21.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/21",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Modification of certain out of hours provisions in the 2004 Regulations during the existence of default contracts",
  "text": "For as long as default contracts exist –\n(a) paragraph 65(2)(a) of Schedule 5 to the 2004 Regulations (sub-contracting of out of hours services) shall be read as if the reference to a general medical services contract included a reference to a default contract; and\n(b) Schedule 6 to those Regulations (out of hours services) shall be read as if –\n(i) the reference to a general medical services contract in paragraph 1(5) included a reference to a default contract, and\n(ii) in paragraph 5(1)(a), after “contract” there were included “or, as the case may be, default contract”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 21 in operation at 29.3.2004, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2004/141/article/21",
    "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."
}