The General Medical Services and Personal Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2004

Notification of sub-contracts under general medical services contracts

29.—(1) Where—

(a) on 31st March 2004, a relevant medical practitioner had in place—

(i) arrangements for the engagement of a deputy of which he had informed the Primary Care Trust under paragraph 21(1) of Schedule 2 to the 1992 Regulations(1), or

(ii) arrangements he had made with an organisation providing deputy doctors of which he had notified the Primary Care Trust under paragraph 21A(3) of that Schedule and in relation to which the Primary Care Trust had not served a notice under paragraph 21A(10) of that Schedule; and

(b) the succeeding general medical services contractor wishes to continue those arrangements after 31st March 2004 in the form of a sub-contract to which paragraph 69 of Schedule 6 to the 2004 Regulations applies,

any requirement for the succeeding contractor to notify the Primary Care Trust of its intention to enter into that sub-contract contained in the term of its general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 69(1)(b) of Schedule 6 to the 2004 Regulations shall not apply, unless the date of termination of the arrangements is extended beyond the date which applied to them on 31st March 2004 or there is a material variation in the nature of those arrangements.

(2) In this article—

“deputy” has the meaning given in paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the 1992 Regulations; and

“organisation providing deputy doctors” has the same meaning as in paragraph 21A(1) of that Schedule.

(1)

Paragraph 21(1) was amended by S.I. 2001/3742 and 2002/2469.