{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-primary-care-act-1997/section-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-primary-care-act-1997/section-12.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1997/46",
  "legislation_title": "National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-primary-care-act-1997",
  "path": "section/12",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Leaving medical lists.",
  "text": "(1) Except in such circumstances and to such extent as may be prescribed, a medical practitioner who performs personal medical services in connection with the provision of such services under a pilot scheme may not provide general medical services under Part II of the 1977 Act or Part II of the 1978 Act.\n(2) Except in such circumstances as may be prescribed, a Primary Care Trust, Health Authority or Health Board must remove from their medical list the name of any medical practitioner who is performing personal medical services in connection with the provision of such services under a pilot scheme made by any authority.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. I ceases to have effect for specified purposes (S.) (1.4.2004) by virtue of Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2004 (asp 1), ss. 3, 9(1); S.S.I. 2004/58, art. 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Pt. I repealed (E.W.) (1.4.2004 for specified purposes, 1.4.2006 in so far as not already in force) by Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c. 43), ss. 178, 199(1)(4), Sch. 14 Pt. 4 Note (with S.I. 2004/865, arts. 1(1), 58); S.I. 2004/288, arts. 4(3)(b), 6(2)(p) (with art. 8) (as amended by S.I. 2004/866 and S.I. 2005/2925); S.I. 2004/480, art. 5(2)(p) (with arts. 6, 7) (as amended by S.I. 2004/1019 and S.I. 2006/345), S.I. 2005/2925, arts. 6(2)(b), 11, S.I. 2006/345, art. 4(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Ss. 11-13 repealed (S.) (1.4.2004) by Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2004 (asp 1), s. 9(1), sch. para. 2(5); S.S.I. 2004/58, art. 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 12(2) substituted (1.10.2002 for E. and W. and otherwiseprosp.) by 2002 c. 17, ss. 4(3), 42(3), Sch. 3 Pt. 1 para. 5(a); S.I. 2002/2478 art. 3(1)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 12(2) substituted (1.10.2002 for E. and W. and otherwiseprosp.) by 2002 c. 17, ss. 4(3), 42(3), Sch, 3 Pt. 1 para. 5(b); S.I. 2002/2478, art. 3(1)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/46/section/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:24:53.963264+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."
}