The General Medical Services and Section 17C Agreements (Transitional and other Ancillary Provisions) (Scotland) Order 2004

Removal from the list of patients at the request of the patient

5.  Where, on or before 31st March 2004, a Health Board had received notice from a patient under regulation 25(1) of the 1995 Regulations(1) that the patient wished to be removed from a relevant medical practitioner’s list of patients but on 31st March 2004 that removal had not yet taken effect in accordance with that regulation, the removal shall take effect as a removal from the list of patients of the succeeding contractor as if it were a removal pursuant to a request received by the Health Board in accordance with–

(a) the term of the succeeding contractor’s general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 19 of Schedule 5 to the 2004 Regulations, subject to the modification that the reference to the period of 14 days in the term which gives effect to paragraph 19(3)(b) shall be read as a reference to the period of 14 days after the date on which the request made under regulation 25(1) of the 1995 Regulations was received by the Health Board; or

(b) the equivalent term of its default contract, subject to a modification to the same effect.

(1)

Regulation 25 was amended by S.S.I. 1999/54.