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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-no-2-northern-ireland-order-2004/article-74",
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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/74",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "74",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Part –\n“the Disciplinary Procedures Regulations” means the Health and Personal Social Services (Disciplinary Procedures) Regulations (Northern Ireland)1996;\n“amendments” in respect of any regulation or regulations in the Disciplinary Procedures Regulations means amendments made to that regulation by paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 to this Order;\n“appropriate Board” has the same meaning as in the Disciplinary Procedures Regulations;\n“contracting Board” means a Board that has entered into a default contract or a general medical services contract (as the case may be) with –\n(a) a doctor who is the subject of the allegation,\n(b) a partnership, where a doctor who is the subject of the allegation is a partner,\n(c) a limited company, where a doctor who is the subject of the allegation is a legal and beneficial shareholder of shares in that company;\n“doctor” has the same meaning as in the Disciplinary Procedures Regulations;\n“relevant contractor” means a party to a general medical services contract or default contract with a contracting Board, where that contractor is –\n(a) a doctor who is the subject of the allegation,\n(b) a partnership, where a doctor who is or was the subject of the allegation is a partner in that partnership,\n(c) a limited company, where a doctor who is or was the subject of the allegation is a legal and beneficial shareholder of shares in that company; and\n“relevant date” means 1st April 2004.\n(2) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in this Part to –\n(a) a numbered regulation is to the regulation bearing that number in the Disciplinary Procedures Regulations; and\n(b) a numbered Schedule is to the Schedule to the Disciplinary Procedures Regulations bearing that number.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 74 in operation at 1.4.2004, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1996 No. 137 as amended by S.R. 1999 No. 15"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2004/156/article/74",
    "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."
}