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

Approvals of out of hours arrangements under personal medical services agreements

77.—(1) Where, on 31st March 2004—

(a) a pilot scheme provider had approval from a relevant body of an out of hours arrangement under regulation 4 of the PMS Out of Hours Regulations; and

(b) that approval—

(i) does not relate to an accredited service provider whose approval had been withdrawn under regulation 8 of the Out of Hours Regulations, or

(ii) had not been withdrawn under regulation 5 or 6 of the PMS Out of Hours Regulations and the withdrawal taken effect,

that approval shall, if the pilot scheme provider has become a PMS contractor, be treated from 1st April 2004 as if it were an approval granted to the PMS contractor by the relevant body pursuant to the term of its agreement which gives effect to paragraph 2 of Schedule 6 to the Personal Medical Services Agreements Regulations or the equivalent term deemed to be included in its transitional agreement pursuant to article 60(7).

(2) The terms of an approval granted pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be the same as those of the approval granted under regulation 4 of the PMS Out of Hours Regulations except that any references to the patients of the pilot scheme provider shall be deemed to be references to the patients of the PMS contractor.