Article 70 InterpretationI1

In this Part—

• “the Service Committees Regulations” means the National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) Regulations 1992^f1;

• “amendments” in respect of any regulation or regulations in the Service Committees Regulations means amendments made to that regulation or those regulations by paragraph 10 of Schedule 1 to this Order;

• “appropriate Local Health Board” has the same meaning as “appropriate Health authority” in the Service Committees Regulations;

• “contracting LHB” means a Local Health Board that has entered into a default contract or a general medical services contract (as the case may be) with—

  1. (a)

     a doctor who is the subject of the allegation,

  2. (b)

     a partnership, where a doctor who is the subject of the allegation is a partner,

  3. (c)

     a limited company, where a doctor who is the subject of the allegation is a legal and beneficial shareholder of shares in that company;

• “doctor” has the same meaning as in the Service Committees Regulations;

• “the Performers List LHB” means the Local Health Board in whose medical performers list the doctor’s name appears on 1st April 2004;

• “relevant contractor” means a party to a general medical services contract or default contract with a contracting LHB, where that contractor is—

  1. (a)

     a doctor who is the subject of the allegation,

  2. (b)

     a partnership, and a doctor who is or was the subject of the allegation is a partner in that partnership,

  3. (c)

     a limited company, where a doctor who is or was the subject of the allegation is a legal and beneficial shareholder of shares in that company; and

• “relevant date” means 1st April 2004.

Unless the contract otherwise requires, any reference in this Part to—