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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-amendment-regulations-1998/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/682",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (General Medical Services) Amendment Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-amendment-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendments of Schedule 2 to the 1992 Regulations",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 2 to the 1992 Regulations (terms of service for doctors) is amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.\n(2) In paragraph 4 (a doctor’s patients)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (1)—\n(i) in paragraph (d), for “regulation 21”, substitute “regulation 4 of the Choice of Medical Practitioner Regulations”, and\n(ii) in paragraph (e), for “regulation 21(3)(b)”, substitute “regulation 4(4) of the Choice of Medical Practitioner Regulations”.\n(b) in paragraph (b) of sub-paragraph (4), for “regulation 26”, substitute “regulation 7 of the Choice of Medical Practitioner Regulations (temporary residents)”; and\n(c) in sub-paragraph (5), for “regulation 21(3)(b)”, in both places, substitute “regulation 4(4) of the Choice of Medical Practitioner Regulations”.\n(3) In paragraph 5 (relief from liability to give emergency treatment), for “regulation 21(11)”, substitute “regulation 4(8) of the Choice of Medical Practitioner Regulations”.\n(4) In paragraph 6 (acceptance of patients), in sub-paragraph (2)—\n(a) after “medical list”, insert “(otherwise than in accordance with section 12(2) of the 1997 Act, to enable him to perform personal medical services in connection with a pilot scheme to which the Health Authority in whose list he was included is a party)”; and\n(b) for “regulation 22”, substitute “regulation 3 of the Choice of Medical Practitioner Regulations”.\n(5) In paragraph 7 (acceptance of patients), for “regulation 26(1)”, substitute “regulation 7(1) of the Choice of Medical Practitioner Regulations”.\n(6) In paragraph 9 (termination of responsibility for patients), in each of paragraphs (1)(a) and (2)(b), after “another doctor”, insert “, or is accepted for inclusion in a pooled list”.\n(7) In each of—\n(a) paragraph 13(5)(a) (provision of services to patients);\n(b) paragraph 14(1) (newly registered patients); and\n(c) paragraph 16(4) (patients aged 75 years and over),\nfor “regulation 21”, substitute “regulation 4 of the Choice of Medical Practitioner Regulations”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Sub-paragraph (4) was substituted by S.I. 1994/633, regulation 8."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Paragraph 13 was substituted by S.I. 1995/80, regulation 3(2)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/682/regulation/4",
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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."
}