{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-contracts-regulations-2015/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-contracts-regulations-2015/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1862",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-contracts-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Health service body status: election",
  "text": "(1) A person who proposes to enter into a contract with NHS England (a “proposed contractor”) may elect, by giving notice in writing to NHS England prior to entering into the contract, to be regarded as a health service body for the purposes of section 9 of the Act (NHS contracts).\n(2) An election made by a proposed contractor under paragraph (1) has effect from the date on which the contract is entered into.\n(3) If, by virtue of paragraph (1), a proposed contractor elects to be regarded as a health service body, the nature of, or any rights or liabilities under, any other contract previously entered into by that proposed contractor with a health service body before the date of that election remains unaffected.\n(4) Paragraph (5) applies where—\n(a) a contractor who is an individual medical practitioner enters, or two or more persons practising in a partnership enter, into a contract with NHS England; and\n(b) that contractor is to be regarded as a health service body in accordance with paragraph (1).\n(5) Subject to regulation 11, the contractor is to be regarded as a health service body for the purposes of section 9 of the Act (NHS contracts) for as long as the contract continues irrespective of any change in the—\n(a) partners in the partnership;\n(b) status of the contractor from that of an individual medical practitioner to that of a partnership; or\n(c) status of the contractor from that of a partnership to that of an individual medical practitioner.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Regulations substituted (6.11.2023) by The Health and Care Act 2022 (Further Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1071), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1862/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:30:48.208183+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."
}