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Article 43 Temporary residentsI1

England and Wales

Where, on the date on which the default contract ceases to have effect—

(a)

a default contractor has accepted a person as a temporary resident under the term of its default contract equivalent to paragraph 16 of Schedule 6 to the 2004 Regulations; and

(b)

its responsibility for that patient has not yet been terminated under that term,

the person shall be treated as if he or she had been accepted as a temporary resident by the general medical services contractor under the term of its general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 16 of Schedule 6 to the 2004 Regulations, subject to the modification that the reference to a period of three months in that term shall be read as a reference to a period of three months starting with the date on which the person was accepted as a temporary resident by the default contractor.

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Art. 43 in force at 1.4.2004, see art. 1(1)