General Medical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

Conditions under which general medical services are to be provided

13.  Where a Board grants an application under regulation 12, it shall specify, as a condition, that the doctor shall provide such services as—

(a) a full-time doctor, that is to say a doctor who is to provide general medical services during not less than 26 hours in any week in which he is, pursuant to paragraph 36 of the terms of service, normally available to provide such services;

(b) a three-quarter-time doctor, that is to say a doctor who is to provide such services during less than 26 hours, but not less than 19 hours, in any such week;

(c) a half-time doctor, that is to say a doctor who is to provide such services during less than 19 hours, but not less than 13 hours, in any such week;

(d) a job-sharing doctor, that is to say a doctor—

(i) who is to practise in partnership with another doctor whose name is included in the medical list; and

(ii) who is himself to provide such services during less than 26 hours in any such week; and

(iii) for whom the hours during which he is to provide such services are, when aggregated with the hours of that other doctor, to amount to not less than 26 hours in any such week; or

(e) a restricted doctor, that is to say a doctor—

(i) who is a restricted list principal or a restricted services principal; and

(ii) who is to provide general medical services during such number of hours in any week as he shall have specified in his application pursuant to regulation 11.