{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-no-2-northern-ireland-order-2004/article-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-no-2-northern-ireland-order-2004/article-11.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2004/156",
  "legislation_title": "The General Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions (No. 2) (Northern Ireland) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-no-2-northern-ireland-order-2004",
  "path": "article/11",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Acceptance of temporary residents",
  "text": "(1) This Article applies where –\n(a) on or before 31st March 2004, a relevant medical practitioner had accepted a person as a temporary resident under paragraph 6(b) of Schedule 2 to the 1997 Regulations; and\n(b) on 31st March 2004, his responsibility for that patient had not yet been terminated under paragraphs 9 and 11 of that Schedule or the period for which the person was accepted as a temporary resident had not yet come to an end.\n(2) In a case to which this Article applies, the person shall, on 1st April 2004, be treated as if he had been accepted as a temporary resident by the succeeding contractor under –\n(a) the term of his general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 16 of Schedule 5 to the 2004 Regulations, subject to the modification that reference to a period of three months in that term shall be read as a reference to a period of three months starting with and including the date on which the person was accepted as a temporary resident by the relevant medical practitioner under paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 to the 1997 Regulations; or\n(b) the equivalent term of his default contract subject to a modification to the same effect.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 11 in operation at 1.4.2004, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 6 was amended by S.R. 1999 No. 100"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Paragraph 9 was amended by S.R. 1999 No. 100"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2004/156/article/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:58:10.315254+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."
}