General Medical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

Application for services

19.—(1) An application by a person (being a person ordinarily resident in Northern Ireland or to whom the provisions of the Health Services (Persons not Ordinarily Resident in Northern Ireland) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1970(1) apply) to a doctor for inclusion in his list for the provision of general medical services, shall be made by delivering to the doctor a medical card or a form of application, approved by the Agency, signed (in either case) by the applicant or a person authorised on his behalf in accordance with paragraph (2).

(2) An application to a doctor for inclusion in his list may be made (otherwise than by the doctor concerned)—

(a) on behalf of any child, by either parent or, in the absence of both parents, the guardian or other adult person who has the care of the child;

(b) on behalf of any person who is incapable of making such an application, by a relative or other adult person who has the care of such person; or

(c) on behalf of any person under 18 years of age who is—

(i) in the care of an authority in whose care he has been placed under the provisions of the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995(2), by a person duly authorised by that authority;

(ii) in the care of a voluntary organisation, by that voluntary organisation or a person duly authorised by it; or

(iii) in a training school, by the manager of that training school.

(1)

S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1970 No. 56

(2)

S.I. 1995/755 (N.I. 2)