{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-no-2-northern-ireland-order-2004/article-91",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-no-2-northern-ireland-order-2004/article-91.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/91",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "91",
  "heading": "Transitory modification of Article 21 of the 1991 Order",
  "text": "For as long as default contracts entered into pursuant to Article 5 of the 2004 Order (general medical services: transitional) exist, Article 21 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 (indicative amounts for doctors' practices) shall be read as if –\n(a) the reference in sub-paragraph (3)(a) to a contract under Article 57 of the Order included a reference to a default contract entered into pursuant to Article 5 of the 2004 Order; and\n(b) after sub-paragraph (3), there were inserted –\n“(3A) Where, in the same financial year, the members of a practice enter into –\n(a) a contract pursuant to Article 5 of the Primary Medical Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2004; and\n(b) a contract with the same Board under Article 57 of the Order which takes effect immediately after the contract referred to in paragraph (a) ceases to have effect,\nthat practice will, for that financial year, count as a single practice for the purposes of this Article.”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 91 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/91",
    "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."
}