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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-wales-no-2-order-2004/schedule-1/paragraph-15",
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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": "schedule/1/paragraph/15",
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  "number": "15",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In the National Health Service (Functions of Health Authorities) (Complaints) Regulations 1996, in regulation 1 (citation, commencement and interpretation), in paragraph (2), for the definition of “family health service practitioner” substitute—\n““family health service practitioner” means a person who—\n(a) provides or performs primary medical services under Part 1 of the Act;\n(b) provides any of the services to be provided under Part 2 of the Act, that is to say, general dental services, general ophthalmic services or pharmaceutical services; or\n(c) before 1st April 2004, provided general medical services under Part 2 of the Act.”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 15 in force at 1.4.2004, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/669 as amended by S.I. 2002/2469."
    }
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2004/1016/schedule/1/paragraph/15",
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  },
  "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."
}