# The General Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions (No. 2) (Northern Ireland) Order 2004, Article 14: Newly registered patients

Extent: N.I.

(1) This Article applies where, on 31st March 2004, a patient specified in paragraph (2) –
(a) was entitled to be invited to participate in a consultation under paragraph 16(1) of Schedule 2 to the 1997 Regulations; and
(b) had not been given such an invitation.
(2) The patient referred to in paragraph (1) is a patient –
(a) who, on or before 31st March 2004 –
(i) had applied for inclusion in a relevant medical practitioner’s list of patients under regulation 2 or 3 of the Choice Regulations and whose application had been accepted, or
(ii) had been assigned to a relevant medical practitioner’s list under regulation 4 of the Choice Regulations; and
(b) in respect of whom a Board had not granted deferment of the obligation to invite him to participate in a consultation under paragraph 16 of Schedule 2 to the 1997 Regulations.
(3) A patient to whom this Article applies shall, on 1st April 2004, be regarded as a patient who falls within –
(a) the term of the succeeding contractor’s general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 4 of Schedule 5 to the 2004 Regulations; or
(b) the equivalent term of his default contract.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2004/156/article/14 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-no-2-northern-ireland-order-2004/article-14
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