Article 2 Relevant non-clinical partners
Where—
a Primary Care Trust enters or has entered into a general medical services contract with a registered medical practitioner as one of two or more individuals practising in partnership;
on 31st March 2004, that registered medical practitioner was carrying on a business, in the course of which he provided services under section 29 of the 1977 Act (arrangements and regulations for general medical services) or under a pilot scheme—
in partnership with an individual who was, or with two or more individuals one of whom was, a non-clinical partner,
in partnership with one or more other registered medical practitioners or other individuals, and that partnership employed a person who is or will become a non-clinical partner in the partnership that enters or has entered into that general medical services contract, or
as a sole practitioner, and he employed a person who is or will become a non-clinical partner in the partnership that enters or has entered into that general medical services contract; and
on the date on which the Primary Care Trust enters or entered into that general medical services contract—
the non-clinical partner mentioned in paragraph (b)(i), or
the person mentioned in paragraph (b)(ii) or (b)(iii),
is or was a partner in the partnership that enters or has entered into that general medical services contract,
that partner in the partnership, as mentioned in paragraph (c), is, for the purposes of articles 3 and 4, a “relevant non-clinical partner”.