PART 3TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS FOR GENERAL MEDICAL SERVICES CONTRACTS WHICH FOLLOW DEFAULT CONTRACTS
Temporary residents37.
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.