{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-primary-care-act-1997/section-34",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-primary-care-act-1997/section-34.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/34",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "Sale of medical practices.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) In the 1978 Act, for section 35 (sale of medical practices), substitute—\n“ Sale of medical practices.\n35 (1) It is unlawful to sell the goodwill of the medical practice of a person who has at any time—\n(a) provided general medical services under arrangements made with any Executive Council or Health Board under the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1947, the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1972 or this Act, or\n(b) provided or performed personal medical services in accordance with section 17C arrangements,\nunless that person no longer provides or performs such services and has never carried on the practice in a relevant area.\n(2) In this section—\n“goodwill” includes any part of goodwill and, in relation to a person practising in partnership, means his share of the goodwill of the partnership practice;\n“medical practice” includes any part of a medical practice; and\n“relevant area”, in relation to any Executive Council or Health Board by arrangement with whom a person has at any time—\n(a)provided general medical services, or\n(b)provided or performed personal medical services in accordance with section 17C arrangements,\nmeans the area of that Council or Board (at that time).\n(3) Schedule 9 supplements the provisions of this section.”",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 34(1) repealed (1.3.2007) by National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), s. 8(2), Sch. 4 (with Sch. 2 Pt. 1 Sch. 3 Pt. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1947 c. 27."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1972 c. 58."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/46/section/34",
    "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."
}