The General Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions (No. 2) (Northern Ireland) Order 2004

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

5.  Where, on or before 31st March 2004, the Agency had received notice from a patient under regulation 22(1)(a) of the 1997 Regulations that he 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 regulation 22(1)(b) of those Regulations, 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 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 22(1)(a) of the 1997 Regulations was received by the Agency; or

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