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Paragraph 5 A doctor’s patients

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A doctor who is elderly or infirm or who has been exempted by the FHSA under regulation 21(11) from the liability to have persons assigned to him, may be relieved by the FHSA of any liability to give treatment which is immediately required owing to an accident or other emergency between 7pm on weekdays and 8am on the following morning and between 1pm on Saturday and 8am on the following Monday to persons who are neither—

(a)

on his list; nor

(b)

temporary residents for whom he is responsible; nor

(c)

accepted by him for the provision of maternity medical services.