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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-no-2-northern-ireland-order-2004/article-85",
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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/85",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "85",
  "heading": "Details to be included on prescription forms etc.",
  "text": "(1) Notwithstanding –\n(a) the terms of a general medical services contract which give effect to paragraph 61(2)(b) of Schedule 5 to the 2004 Regulations; or\n(b) the equivalent terms of a default contract,\nprescription forms issued for the purposes of a default contract or a general medical services contract before 31st March 2006 need not include the name of the contractor.\n(2) In paragraph (1), “prescription form” has the same meaning as in regulation 2(1) of the 2004 Regulations.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 85(1) substituted (25.8.2005) by The General Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions (No.2) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. 2005/369), arts. 1, 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 85 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/85",
    "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."
}