{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-no-2-northern-ireland-order-2004/article-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-no-2-northern-ireland-order-2004/article-17.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/17",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Independent nurse prescribers and supplementary prescribers",
  "text": "(1) Where, on or before 31st March 2004, a relevant medical practitioner had notified the Board of any matters relating to an independent nurse prescriber or a supplementary prescriber under paragraph 35A or paragraph 35B of Schedule 2 to the 1997 Regulations, the succeeding contractor shall not be required to notify the Board of those same matters under –\n(a) the term of his general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 60 of Schedule 5 to the 2004 Regulations; or\n(b) the equivalent term of his default contract.\n(2) In paragraph (1) “independent nurse prescriber” and “supplementary prescriber” have the same meaning as in paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the 1997 Regulations.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 17 in operation at 1.4.2004, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 35A was inserted by S.R. 2001 No. 167 and paragraph 35B was inserted by S.R. 2003 No. 447"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "These definitions were inserted into paragraph 1 by S.R. 2003 No. 447"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2004/156/article/17",
    "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."
}