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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-wales-no-2-order-2004/article-85",
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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/85",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "85",
  "heading": "Transitory interpretation of references to general medical services contracts",
  "text": "(1) For as long as default contracts entered into pursuant to section 176(3) of the 2003 Act (general medical services: transitional) exist, any reference to a general medical services contract or to a contract under section 28Q of the 1977 Act in the enactments listed in paragraph (2) shall be deemed to include a reference to a default contract.\n(2) The enactments referred to in paragraph (1) are—\n(a) the 1977 Act, sections 3(4)(b), 26(2) and (4)(aa)(b), 28D(1)(bc)(i), 45A(3), (4) and (11), 54(1)(c), 72(5)(d);\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) the Access to Health Records Act 1990, section 1(2)(a);\n(d) the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992, section 279(2);\n(e) the Health Service Commissioners Act 1993, section 2A(1)(a) and (2)(a);\n(f) the Employment Rights Act 1996, section 43K(1)(ba);\n(g) the Health and Social Care Act 2001, Schedule 1, paragraph 11(a).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 85(2)(b) revoked (1.4.2023) by The Health and Social Care (Quality and Engagement) (Wales) Act 2020 (Consequential, Supplementary and Incidental Amendments and Revocations) (Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/299), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 85 in force at 1.4.2004, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 3(4) was inserted into the Act by paragraph 8 of Schedule 11 to the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c. 43) (“the 2003 Act”)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 26(2)(b) and (4)(aa) were substituted by the 2003 Act, Schedule 11, paragraph (2)(b) and (3)(b)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 28D(bc) was inserted by the 2003 Act, section 177(2)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 45A was inserted into the Act by paragraph 23 of Schedule 11 to the 2003 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Paragraph (c) was inserted into section 54(1) of the Act by paragraph 26(2)(c) of Schedule 11 to the 2003 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "Paragraph (d) was inserted into section 72(5) of the Act by paragraph 27(2) of Schedule 11 to the 2003 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "1990 c. 23. Section 1(2)(a) was substituted by the 2003 Act, Schedule 11,paragraph 57(2)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "1992 c. 52. Section 279(2) was inserted by the 2003 Act, Schedule 11, paragraph 59(4)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "1993 c. 46. Section 2A was inserted by the Health Service Commissioners (Amendment) Act 1996 (c. 5), section 1 and subsections (1)(a) and (2)(a) were substituted by the 2003 Act, Schedule 11, paragraph 62."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f10",
      "text": "1996 c. 18. Section 43K was inserted by the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 (c. 23), section 1 and subsection (1)(ba) was inserted by the 2003 Act, Schedule 11, paragraph 65(2)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f11",
      "text": "2001 c. 15. Paragraph 11 of Schedule 1 was substituted by the 2003 Act, Schedule 11, paragraph 72(2)."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2004/1016/article/85",
    "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."
}