{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-regulations-1992/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-regulations-1992/regulation-3.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/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Scope and terms of service",
  "text": "(1) The arrangements with doctors for the provision of general medical services which it is the duty of an FHSA under section 29 of the Act to make and, under section 15(1) of the Act, to administer shall include arrangements for the provision of—\n(a) all necessary and appropriate personal medical services of the type usually provided by general medical practitioners;\n(b) child health surveillance services;\n(c) contraceptive services, that is to say—\n(i) the giving of advice to women on contraception,\n(ii) the medical examination of women seeking such advice,\n(iii) the contraceptive treatment of such women, and\n(iv) the supply to such women of contraceptive substances and appliances;\n(d) maternity medical services; and\n(e) minor surgery services.\n(2) The arrangements to which paragraph (1) refers shall incorporate the terms of service set out in Schedule 2, and Schedules 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 shall have effect for the purposes of paragraphs 29, 37, 44(1), 44(2), 47 and 50 respectively of the terms of service.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See column 2 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations for the relevant amendments to section 29."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 15(1) was amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), Schedule 1, paragraphs 35 and 90 and by the Health and Social Security Act 1984 (c. 48), section 5(2) and Schedule 8, Part I."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "type": "am (E)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3742",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (General Medical Services) Amendment (No. 4) Regulations 2001"
    },
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      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/2469",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (Supplementary, Consequential etc. Provisions) Regulations 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2002/1896",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Amendment) (Wales) (No. 2) Regulations 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2002/1896",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Amendment) (Wales) (No. 2) Regulations 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2002/1896",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Amendment) (Wales) (No. 2) Regulations 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/635/regulation/3",
    "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."
}