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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-no-2-northern-ireland-order-2004/article-59",
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  "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/59",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "59",
  "heading": "Interpretation of this Part",
  "text": "In this Part –\n“out of hours arrangement” means –\n(a) in relation to the period before 1st April 2004, an arrangement under paragraph 20(2) of Schedule 2 to the 1997 Regulations, or\n(b) in relation to the period from 1st April 2004, means an arrangement under the terms of a general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 6 to the 2004 Regulations (or the equivalent term of a default contract);\n“out of hours services” means services required to be provided in all or part of the out of hours period which –\n(a) would be essential services if provided in core hours, or\n(b) are included –\n(i) in a default contract as additional services funded under Article 35(2) of the No. 1 Order, or\n(ii) in a general medical services contract as additional services funded under the global sum.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 59 in operation at 1.4.2004, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 20(2) was amended by S.R. 1999 No. 100"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2004/156/article/59",
    "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."
}