The General Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions (No. 1) (Northern Ireland) Order 2004

Entitlement to a contract as one of two or more individuals practising in partnership

5.  Subject to Article 6, a Board must, if a person so wishes, enter into a general medical services contract with him as one of two or more individuals practising in partnership if –

(a) on 31st March 2004, or on the date on which the contract is to be signed, if earlier, he is –

(i) included in the medical list of the Board by virtue of regulation 4(1)(a) of the 1997 Regulations, or

(ii) a medical practitioner who has been approved by the Board under regulation 12 of the 1997 Regulations but whose name has not yet been entered on the Board’s medical list in accordance with regulation 12 of those Regulations(1);

(b) except in the case of a person who falls within paragraph (a)(ii), he is, on the date on which the contract is to be signed, providing general medical services under Article 56 of the 1972 Order or services under a default contract –

(i) in partnership with a person who meets the requirements in paragraph (a)(i), or

(ii) as an individual medical practitioner with whom another medical practitioner has been approved to be in partnership under regulation 12 of the 1997 Regulations; and

(c) he wishes to enter into a contract as an individual practising in partnership with a medical practitioner who meets the requirements in paragraph (a)(i) and with whom he was on 31st March 2004, or is on the date on which the contract is to be signed, if earlier, practising in partnership or whose application, in relation to the partnership, has been approved by the Board under regulation 12 of the 1997 Regulations.

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Regulation 12 was amended by S.R. 1999 No. 100