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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-no-2-northern-ireland-order-2004/article-41",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-no-2-northern-ireland-order-2004/article-41.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/41",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "41",
  "heading": "Application and interpretation of this Part",
  "text": "(1) This Part applies where a person who holds a default contract with a Board enters into a general medical services contract with that Board which takes effect immediately after his default contract ceases to have effect.\n(2) In a case to which this Part applies, the general medical services contract shall, unless it is entered into with a person to whom the particular Article does not apply, include, or be deemed to include, terms which have the effect specified in Articles 42 to 52.\n(3) In this Part –\n“default contractor” means a person who holds a default contract with a Board and who has entered into a general medical services contract with that Board which takes effect immediately after the default contract ceases to have effect;\n“general medical services contractor” means the person who holds the general medical services contract entered into by the default contractor.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 41 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/41",
    "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."
}