{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-contracts-regulations-2015/regulation-44",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-contracts-regulations-2015/regulation-44.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/44",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "44",
  "heading": "Conditions for employment and engagement: medical practitioners",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a contractor may not employ or engage a medical practitioner unless the contractor has checked that the practitioner meets the requirements of—\n(a) regulation 40; and\n(b) regulation 43.\n(2) Where—\n(a) the employment or engagement of a medical practitioner is urgently needed; and\n(b) it is not possible for the contractor to check the matters referred to in regulation 43 in accordance with paragraph (1)(b) before employing or engaging the practitioner,\nthe contractor may employ or engage the practitioner on a temporary basis for a single period of up to seven days while such checks are undertaken.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 44(1) substituted (27.5.2024) by The National Health Service (Primary Medical Services and Performers Lists) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/575), reg. 1(2)(a), Sch. 1 para. 2(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 44(3) omitted (27.5.2024) by virtue of The National Health Service (Primary Medical Services and Performers Lists) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/575), reg. 1(2)(a), Sch. 1 para. 2(2)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1862/regulation/44",
    "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."
}