# The General Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions (Wales) (No. 2) Order 2004, Article 70: Interpretation

Extent: E+W

(1) In this Part—
“the Service Committees Regulations” means the National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) Regulations 1992;
“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—
(a) a doctor who is the subject of the allegation,
(b) a partnership, where a doctor who is the subject of the allegation is a partner,
(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—
(a) a doctor who is the subject of the allegation,
(b) a partnership, and a doctor who is or was the subject of the allegation is a partner in that partnership,
(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.
(2) Unless the contract otherwise requires, any reference in this Part to—
(a) A numbered regulation is to the regulation bearing that number in the Service Committees Regulations; and
(b) A numbered Schedule is to the Schedule to the Service Committees Regulations bearing that number.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2004/1016/article/70 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-wales-no-2-order-2004/article-70
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