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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-no-2-northern-ireland-order-2004/article-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-no-2-northern-ireland-order-2004/article-25.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/25",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Inquiries about prescriptions and referrals",
  "text": "Where, on or before 31st March 2004, a relevant medical practitioner had received an inquiry about prescriptions or referrals from a Board under paragraph 55 of Schedule 2 to the 1997 Regulations but had not yet responded to that inquiry, the succeeding contractor shall respond as if the inquiry had been made under –\n(a) the term of his general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 73 of Schedule 5 to the 2004 Regulations; or\n(b) the equivalent term of his default contract.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 25 in operation at 1.4.2004, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2004/156/article/25",
    "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."
}