{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-regulations-1992/regulation-29",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-regulations-1992/regulation-29.json",
  "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/29",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "29",
  "heading": "Obtaining contraceptive services",
  "text": "(1) Whether or not she is included in his list for the provision of other personal medical services, a woman may apply to a doctor who has undertaken to provide contraceptive services to be accepted by him for the provision of those services.\n(2) An application under paragraph (2) shall be for the provision of such services for a period of 12 months from the date of acceptance, but either the woman or the doctor may terminate the provision at any time during that period.\n(3) On any such termination or at the end of the period of 12 months, as the case may be, the woman may apply (or re-apply) to a doctor in accordance with paragraph (2).\n(4) A woman may apply to a doctor who has undertaken to provide contraceptive services in a locality or part of a locality in which she is temporarily resident, to be accepted by him for the provision to her, as a temporary resident, of contraceptive services.\n(5) Where a woman has been accepted by a doctor for the provision to her of contraceptive services under paragraph (4), paragraph 4 of regulation 26 shall apply to terminate that provision.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/682",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (General Medical Services) Amendment Regulations 1998"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/635/regulation/29",
    "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."
}