General Medical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

Publication of particulars

41.—(1) Each Board shall publish the local directory and shall make available for inspection at its principal office copies of—

(a) the local directory;

(b) a compendium of practice leaflets provided to it by doctors whose names are included in the medical list;

(c) the terms of service; and

(d) the Statement published under regulation 37,

and shall keep them up to date.

(2) The Agency shall publish the medical list and the obstetric list and shall make copies of them available for inspection at its office together with a copy of the Statement published under regulation 37 and shall keep them up to date.

(3) The Board and the Agency shall make the documents mentioned in paragraphs (1) and (2) available for inspection at such other places as appear to them convenient for informing all persons interested or may publish at such places a notice of the places and times at which copies of such documents may be seen.

(4) The Agency shall—

(a) send a copy of the medical list and the obstetric list to the Department, each Board, the Medical Committee, the Obstetric Committee, the Local Pharmaceutical Committee, each Local Medical Committee and the General Medical Services Committee of the British Medical Association; and

(b) at intervals of not more than 3 months notify each of the bodies mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) of any alterations in the lists mentioned in that sub-paragraph.

(5) Notwithstanding paragraph (4), if the Agency considers that only parts of the medical list or the obstetric list, or that only some of the alterations, are likely to concern the bodies mentioned in that paragraph, it may send to those bodies a copy of only those parts or alterations.