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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-contracts-regulations-2004/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/291",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-contracts-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Conditions relating solely to medical practitioners",
  "text": "(1) In the case of a contract to be entered into with a medical practitioner, that practitioner must be a general medical practitioner.\n(2) In the case of a contract to be entered into with two or more individuals practising in partnership—\n(a) at least one partner (who must not be a limited partner) must be a general medical practitioner; and\n(b) any other partner who is a medical practitioner must—\n(i) be a general medical practitioner, or\n(ii) be employed by a Primary Care Trust, a Local Health Board, (in England and Wales and Scotland) an NHS Trust, an NHS foundation trust, (in Scotland) a Health Board or (in Northern Ireland) a Health and Social Services Trust.\n(3) In the case of a contract to be entered into with a company limited by shares—\n(a) at least one share in the company must be legally and beneficially owned by a general medical practitioner; and\n(b) any other share or shares in the company that are legally and beneficially owned by a medical practitioner must be so owned by—\n(i) a general medical practitioner, or\n(ii) a medical practitioner who is employed by a Primary Care Trust, a Local Health Board, (in England and Wales and Scotland) an NHS Trust, an NHS foundation trust, (in Scotland) a Health Board or (in Northern Ireland) a Health and Social Services Trust.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    },
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/291/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:34:19.087921+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."
}