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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-no-2-northern-ireland-order-2004/schedule-1/paragraph-8",
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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": "schedule/1/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Subject to Articles 70 to 80, the Health and Personal Social Services (Disciplinary Procedures) Regulations 1996 shall be amended as follows –\n(a) in regulation 2 (interpretation) –\n(i) in paragraph (1) –\n(aa) omit the definitions of “Local Medical Committee”, “medical discipline committee”, “medical list” and “medical officer”;\n(bb) in the definition of “deputy”, omit paragraph (a);\n(cc) in the definition of “Part V1 service”, omit the words “general medical services”;\n(dd) in the definition of “practitioner”, omit the word “doctor,”;\n(ee) in the definition of “relevant local representative committee”, omit paragraph (a);\n(ff) in the definition of “terms of service”, omit “the terms of service for doctors contained in Schedule 1”; and\n(gg) in the definition of “treatment”, omit the words “in relation to general medical services, has the same meaning as in the General Medical and Pharmaceutical Regulations, and,”;\n(b) in regulation 3 (establishment of committees), omit paragraph (1)(a);\n(c) in regulation 4 (provisions relating to the start of disciplinary proceedings) –\n(i) omit paragraph (5)(b) and (6); and\n(ii) in paragraph (5)(a), omit the word “medical”;\n(d) in regulation 5 (referral to discipline committee), omit paragraph (2)(a);\n(e) in regulation 6 (time limits), in paragraph (3)(a), omit the word “doctor,”;\n(f) in regulation 8 (determination of appropriate Board), omit paragraphs (3) and (4);\n(g) in regulation 9 (appeal to the Department) –\n(i) in paragraph (1)(b), omit (3), and\n(ii) in paragraph (5), omit “(3),” in the second place it appears;\n(h) in regulation 10 (procedure on appeal) –\n(i) in paragraph (5), omit “(3)”,\n(ii) in paragraph (7), omit sub-paragraph (a), and\n(iii) in paragraph (8), omit sub-paragraph (a);\n(i) in regulation 11 (recovery of amounts from practitioners following appeal), in paragraph (4), for the words “paragraphs (3), or”, substitute “paragraph”;\n(j) omit regulations 14 (excessive prescribing by doctors), 15 (investigation of certification), 16 (investigation of record keeping) and 17 (decision as to treatment for which fees may be charged by doctors);\n(k) in regulation 21 (referral of matters to professional bodies), in paragraph (3)(a) omit the words “a doctor or”;\n(l) in Schedule 1 (constitution of discipline committees) –\n(i) omit paragraph 2(1)(b)(ii),\n(ii) in paragraph 2(2), for “(ii)”, substitute “(iii)”,\n(iii) in paragraph 2(4), omit sub-paragraph (a), and\n(iv) in paragraph 8(b)(i), omit the word “doctor” and omit sub-paragraph (c)(i);\n(m) in Schedule 2 (procedure for investigation by discipline committees) –\n(i) in paragraph 2, omit sub-paragraph (1)(a), and\n(ii) in paragraph 9, omit sub-paragraph (c)(i) and (d);\n(n) in Schedule 3, omit paragraph 1; and\n(o) omit Schedule 4 (rules of procedure under regulation 17).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 8 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": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2004/156/schedule/1/paragraph/8",
    "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."
}