# The General Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions (No. 2) (Northern Ireland) Order 2004, Article 4: Acceptance of applications for inclusion in lists of patients

Extent: N.I.

(1) Where, on or before 31st March 2004, a relevant medical practitioner had agreed to accept a person on his list of patients pursuant to paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 to the 1997 Regulations but on 31st March 2004 he had not yet sent the signed medical card or the application to the Agency in accordance with sub-paragraph (3) of that paragraph, that acceptance shall be regarded on 1st April 2004 as an acceptance by the succeeding contractor and notification of that acceptance shall be sent by the succeeding contractor to the Board in accordance with –
(a) the term of his general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 15(5) of Schedule 5 to the 2004 Regulations; or
(b) the equivalent term of his default contract.
(2) In paragraph (1), “medical card” has the same meaning as in regulation 2(1) of the 2004 Regulations.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2004/156/article/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-no-2-northern-ireland-order-2004/article-4
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