The General Medical Services and Section 17C Agreements (Transitional and other Ancillary Provisions) (Scotland) Order 2004

Acceptance of temporary residents

11.—(1) This article applies where–

(a) on or before 31st March 2004, a relevant medical practitioner had accepted a person as a temporary resident under paragraph 7(b) of Schedule 1 to the 1995 Regulations; and

(b) on 31st March 2004, his responsibility for that patient had not yet been terminated under paragraph 9A of that Schedule or the period for which the person was accepted as a temporary resident had not yet come to an end.

(2) In a case to which this article applies, the person shall, on 1st April 2004, be treated as if he had been accepted as a temporary resident by the succeeding contractor under–

(a) the term of its general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 16 of Schedule 5 to the 2004 Regulations, subject to the modification that reference to a period of three months in that term shall be read as a reference to a period of three months starting with the date on which the person was accepted as a temporary resident by the relevant medical practitioner under paragraph 7 of Schedule 1 to the 1995 Regulations; or

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