{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-regulations-1992/regulation-15",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/635",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (General Medical Services) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Conditions under which general medical services are to be provided",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of section 33(4)(a) of the Act, the condition by reference to which the Medical Practices Committee shall specify the provision of general medical services for which the applicant will be entitled to be remunerated is that he shall provide such services as—\n(a) a full-time doctor, that is to say a doctor who is to provide general medical services during not less than 26 hours in any week in which he is, pursuant to paragraph 29 of his terms of service, normally available to provide such services;\n(b) a three-quarter-time doctor, that is to say a doctor who is to provide such services during less than 26 hours but not less than 19 hours in any such week;\n(c) a half-time doctor, that is to say a doctor who is to provide such services during less than 19 hours, but not less than 13 hours, in any such week;\n(d) a job-sharing doctor, that is to say a doctor—\n(i) who is to practise in partnership with another doctor whose name is included in the medical list, and\n(ii) who is himself to provide such services during less than 26 hours in any such week, and\n(iii) for whom the hours during which he is to provide such services are, when aggregated with the hours of that other doctor, to amount to not less than 26 hours in any such week; or\n(e) a restricted doctor, that is to say a doctor—\n(i) who is a restricted list principal or a restricted services principal, and\n(ii) who is to provide general medical services during such number of hours in any week as he shall have specified in his application pursuant to regulation 5.\n(2) Where on 1st January 1991 a doctor’s name was included in the medical list, that doctor shall be treated as if the Medical Practices Committee had on that date imposed in relation to him—\n(a) where the doctor was at that date available for not less than 26 hours in any week, the condition mentioned in paragraph (1)(a);\n(b) where the doctor was at that date available for less than 26 hours but not less than 19 hours in any week, the condition mentioned in paragraph (1)(b);\n(c) where the doctor was at that date available for less than 19 hours but not less than 13 hours in any week, the condition mentioned in paragraph (1)(c);\n(d) where the doctor was at that date available jointly with another doctor for not less than 26 hours in any week, the condition mentioned in paragraph (1)(d); or\n(e) where the doctor was at that date a restricted list principal or a restricted services principal, the condition mentioned in paragraph (1)(e), but as if for the reference in that sub-paragraph to the hours specified by the doctor in his application, there was substituted a reference to the hours for which the doctor was, in any week, normally available to his patients immediately before 1st January 1991.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/2469",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (Supplementary, Consequential etc. Provisions) Regulations 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "subst (E)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/554",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (General Medical Services) Amendment Regulations 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "subst (W)",
      "affecting": "wsi/2002/916",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/635/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:25:54.472536+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."
}