The General Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions (No. 2) (Northern Ireland) Order 2004

Interpretation

74.—(1) In this Part –

“the Disciplinary Procedures Regulations” means the Health and Personal Social Services (Disciplinary Procedures) Regulations (Northern Ireland)1996(1);

“amendments” in respect of any regulation or regulations in the Disciplinary Procedures Regulations means amendments made to that regulation by paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 to this Order;

“appropriate Board” has the same meaning as in the Disciplinary Procedures Regulations;

“contracting Board” means a Board that has entered into a default contract or a general medical services contract (as the case may be) with –

(a)

a doctor who is the subject of the allegation,

(b)

a partnership, where a doctor who is the subject of the allegation is a partner,

(c)

a limited company, where a doctor who is the subject of the allegation is a legal and beneficial shareholder of shares in that company;

“doctor” has the same meaning as in the Disciplinary Procedures Regulations;

“relevant contractor” means a party to a general medical services contract or default contract with a contracting Board, where that contractor is –

(a)

a doctor who is the subject of the allegation,

(b)

a partnership, where a doctor who is or was the subject of the allegation is a partner in that partnership,

(c)

a limited company, where a doctor who is or was the subject of the allegation is a legal and beneficial shareholder of shares in that company; and

“relevant date” means 1st April 2004.

(2) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in this Part to –

(a) a numbered regulation is to the regulation bearing that number in the Disciplinary Procedures Regulations; and

(b) a numbered Schedule is to the Schedule to the Disciplinary Procedures Regulations bearing that number.

(1)

S.R. 1996 No. 137 as amended by S.R. 1999 No. 15