{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-no-2-northern-ireland-order-2004/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-no-2-northern-ireland-order-2004/article-7.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/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Removals from the list of patients who are violent",
  "text": "(1) This Article applies where, on or before 31st March 2004, a person had been removed from a relevant medical practitioner’s list of patients with immediate effect pursuant to paragraph 10 of Schedule 2 to the 1997 Regulations but –\n(a) confirmation in writing had not yet been given to the Agency under paragraph 10(2);\n(b) reasonable steps had not yet been taken by the relevant medical practitioner under paragraph 10(4) to inform the person whose name had been removed; or\n(c) written notice of the removal had not yet been given to the person by the Agency under regulation 18(8)(b) of the 1997 Regulations.\n(2) In a case to which paragraph (1)(a) applies written confirmation of the request for removal shall be given to the Board by the succeeding contractor within 7 days from the date on which notification was given under paragraph 10.\n(3) In a case to which paragraph (1)(b) applies, reasonable steps shall be taken by the succeeding contractor to inform the patient of the request for removal.\n(4) In a case to which paragraph (1)(c) applies, the Board shall send written notice of the removal to the patient.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 7 in operation at 1.4.2004, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation 18(8)(b) 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/7",
    "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."
}