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Paragraph 22 Removals from the list of patients registered elsewhere

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

The Primary Care Trust shall remove a patient from the contractor’s list of patients if—

(a)

he has subsequently been registered with another provider of essential services (or their equivalent) in the area of the Primary Care Trust; or

(b)

it has received notice from another Primary Care Trust, a Local Health Board, a Health Board or a Health and Social Services Board that he has subsequently been registered with a provider of essential services (or their equivalent) outside the area of the Primary Care Trust.

(2)

A removal in accordance with sub-paragraph (1) shall take effect—

(a)

on the date on which the Primary Care Trust receives notification of the registration of the person with the new provider; or

(b)

with the consent of the Primary Care Trust, on such other date as has been agreed between the contractor and the new provider.

(3)

The Primary Care Trust shall notify the contractor in writing of persons removed from its list of patients under sub-paragraph (1).