Article 1 Citation, commencement, application and interpretation

(1)

This Order may be cited as the General Medical Services (Transitional Measure Relating to Non-Clinical Partners) Order 2004 and shall come into force on 3^rd August 2004.

(2)

This Order applies in relation to England only.

(3)

In this Order—

“the 1977 Act” means the National Health Service Act 1977^f1;
“default contract” means a contract under article 13 of the General Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2004^f2 (entitlement to a contract under section 176(3) of the Act);
“health care professional” means a person who is a member of a profession regulated by a body mentioned in section 25(3) of the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002^f3;
“non-clinical partner” means a partner in a partnership who is neither a registered medical practitioner nor a health care professional;
“pilot scheme” means an agreement made under Part 1 of the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997^f4;
“relevant non-clinical partner” shall be construed in accordance with article 2; and
“sole practitioner” means a registered medical practitioner who, prior to 1st April 2004, provided services under section 29 of the 1977 Act^f5 (arrangements and regulations for general medical services) but not as part of an association of registered medical practitioners who, as a group practice, co-ordinated their respective obligations to provide services under the said section 29.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1977 c. 49.
f2: S.I.2004/433.
f3: 2002 c. 17.
f4: 1997 c. 46.
f5: Section 29 was repealed on 1st April 2004 but before that repeal it had been amended by: the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), section 7; the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41), Schedule 6, paragraph 2; the Medical Act 1983 (c. 54), Schedule 5, paragraph 16(a); S.I. 1985/39, article 7; the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17), Schedule 1, paragraph 18; the Medical (Professional Performance) Act 1995 (c. 51), the Schedule, paragraph 28; the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46), Schedule 2, paragraphs 8 and 71, and Schedule 3, Part I; the Health and Social Care Act 2001 (c. 15), section 23, and Schedule 6, Part 1; and the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c. 17), Schedule 2, paragraph 3, and Schedule 8, paragraph 2.