{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-performers-lists-regulations-2004/regulation-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-performers-lists-regulations-2004/regulation-22.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/585",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Performers Lists) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-performers-lists-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/22",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Medical performers list",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), a medical practitioner may not perform any primary medical services, unless he is a general medical practitioner and his name is included in a medical performers list.\n(2) A medical practitioner, who is provisionally registered under section 15, 15A or 21 of the Medical Act, may perform primary medical services, when his name is not included in a medical performers list, but only whilst acting in the course of his employment in a resident medical capacity in an approved medical practice (within the meaning of section 11(4) of that Act).\n(3) A GP Registrar, who has applied in accordance with these Regulations to a Primary Care Trust to have his name included in its medical performers list, may perform primary medical services, despite not being included in that list, until the first of the following events arises—\n(a) the Trust notifies him of its decision on that application; or\n(b) the end of a period of 2 months, starting with the date on which his vocational training scheme begins.\n(4) In respect of any medical practitioner, whose name is included in a medical performers list, the list shall include—\n(a) his full name;\n(b) his professional registration number with, suffixed to it, the organisational code given by the Secretary of State to the Primary Care Trust;\n(c) his date of birth, where he consents, or if not, his dates of first registration in both registers;\n(d) whether he is a contractor;\n(e) whether he is a GP Registrar;\n(f) whether he is an armed forces GP; and\n(g) the date that his name was included in the medical performers list or, if his name was included in any medical, supplementary or services list of a Primary Care Trust, first included in such a list.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Relevant amendments to sections 15 and 21 are S.I. 1996/1591 and s. 41(10) of and paragraph 61(1) and (4) to Schedule 2 to the 1997 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Relevant amendments are s. 35(1) and (4) of the 1997 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/234",
      "affecting_title": "The General and Specialist Medical Practice (Education, Training and Qualifications) Order 2010"
    },
    {
      "type": "words revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/3491",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Performers Lists) Amendment Regulations 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/1385",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Performers Lists) Amendment Regulations 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/1385",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Performers Lists) Amendment Regulations 2006"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/585/regulation/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:30:47.975744+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."
}