# The General Medical Services (Transitional Measure Relating to Non-Clinical Partners) (Wales) Order 2004, Article 2: Relevant non-clinical partners


Where —
(a) a Local Health Board 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;
(b) on 31st March 2004, that registered medical practitioner was carrying on a business, in the course of which he or she provided services under section 29 of the 1977 Act (arrangements and regulations for general medical services) —
(i) in partnership with an individual who was, or with two or more individuals one of whom was, a non-clinical partner,
(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
(iii) as a sole practitioner and he or she 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
(c) on the date on which the Local Health Board enters or entered into that general medical services contract —
(i) the non-clinical partner mentioned in paragraph (b)(i), or
(ii) 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 sub-paragraph (c), is, for the purposes of article 3, a “relevant non-clinical partner”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2004/1825/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-transitional-measure-relating-to-non-clinical-partners-wales-order-2004/article-2
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