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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-wales-no-2-order-2004/article-56",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2004/1016",
  "legislation_title": "The General Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions (Wales) (No. 2) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-wales-no-2-order-2004",
  "path": "article/56",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Interpretation of this Part",
  "text": "In this Part—\n“agreement” means, unless the context otherwise requires, an agreement for primary medical services made under section 28C of the 1977 Act;\n“out of hours arrangement” means—\n(a) in relation to the period before 1st April 2004, an arrangement under paragraph 18A(2) of Schedule 2 to the 1992 Regulations; or\n(b) in relation to the period from 1st April 2004, means an arrangement under the term of a general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 7 to the 2004 Regulations (or the equivalent term of a default contract);\n“out of hours services” means services required to be provided in all or part of the out of hours period which—\n(a) would be essential services if provided in core hours; or\n(b) are included—\n(i) in a default contract as additional services funded under article 36(2) of the Transitional Order, or\n(ii) in a general medical services contract as additional services funded under the global sum.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 56 in force at 1.4.2004, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 18A was inserted by S.I. 1996/702 and paragraph (2) was substituted, by S.I. 2002/2548 and amended by S.I. 2002/916 (W.104)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2004/1016/article/56",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:08:48.600396+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."
}