{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-wales-no-2-order-2004/article-70",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-wales-no-2-order-2004/article-70.json",
  "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/70",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "70",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Part—\n“the Service Committees Regulations” means the National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) Regulations 1992;\n“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;\n“appropriate Local Health Board” has the same meaning as “appropriate Health authority” in the Service Committees Regulations;\n“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—\n(a) a doctor who is the subject of the allegation,\n(b) a partnership, where a doctor who is the subject of the allegation is a partner,\n(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;\n“doctor” has the same meaning as in the Service Committees Regulations;\n“the Performers List LHB” means the Local Health Board in whose medical performers list the doctor’s name appears on 1st April 2004;\n“relevant contractor” means a party to a general medical services contract or default contract with a contracting LHB, where that contractor is—\n(a) a doctor who is the subject of the allegation,\n(b) a partnership, and a doctor who is or was the subject of the allegation is a partner in that partnership,\n(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\n“relevant date” means 1st April 2004.\n(2) Unless the contract otherwise requires, any reference in this Part to—\n(a) A numbered regulation is to the regulation bearing that number in the Service Committees Regulations; and\n(b) A numbered Schedule is to the Schedule to the Service Committees Regulations bearing that number.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 70 in force at 1.4.2004, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/664 as amended by S.I.1996/703, 1998/674, 2002/2469 and 2003/1397."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2004/1016/article/70",
    "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."
}