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

Temporary residents

37.  Where, on the date on which the default contract ceases to have effect–

(a) a default contractor has accepted a person as a temporary resident under the term of its default contract equivalent to paragraph 16 of Schedule 5 to the 2004 Regulations; and

(b) its responsibility for that patient has not yet been terminated under that term,

the person shall be treated as if he had been accepted as a temporary resident by the general medical services contractor under 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 the 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 default contractor.