# The General Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions (No. 2) (Northern Ireland) Order 2004, Article 23: Complaints relating to general medical services made after 31st March 2004

Extent: N.I.

The complaints procedure established and operated by a succeeding contractor under –
(a) the term of his general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 84 of Schedule 5 to the 2004 Regulations; or
(b) the equivalent term of the default contract,
shall apply to any complaint which a patient or former patient of the relevant medical practitioner to whom he is a succeeding contractor could have made (but did not make) on or before 31st March 2004 under paragraph 52 of Schedule 2 to the 1997 Regulations as it applies to complaints made by a patient or former patient of the succeeding contractor in relation to any matter reasonably connected with the provision of services under the contract.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2004/156/article/23 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-no-2-northern-ireland-order-2004/article-23
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