{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-transitional-measure-relating-to-non-clinical-partners-order-2004/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-transitional-measure-relating-to-non-clinical-partners-order-2004/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/1772",
  "legislation_title": "The General Medical Services (Transitional Measure Relating to Non-Clinical Partners) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-transitional-measure-relating-to-non-clinical-partners-order-2004",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Relevant non-clinical partners",
  "text": "Where—\n(a) 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;\n(b) 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—\n(i) in partnership with an individual who was, or with two or more individuals one of whom was, a non-clinical partner,\n(ii) 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\n(iii) 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\n(c) on the date on which the Primary Care Trust enters or entered into that general medical services contract—\n(i) the non-clinical partner mentioned in paragraph (b)(i), or\n(ii) the person mentioned in paragraph (b)(ii) or (b)(iii),\nis or was a partner in the partnership that enters or has entered into that general medical services contract,\nthat partner in the partnership, as mentioned in paragraph (c), is, for the purposes of articles 3 and 4, a “relevant non-clinical partner”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1772/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:22:53.586071+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."
}