The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2005

Transitional arrangements in relation to conditions in regulation 4 of the principal Regulations

6.—(1) This regulation applies where, in relation to a general medical services contract entered into before 1st July 2005, the only person who was a general medical practitioner for the purposes of regulation 4(1), (2)(a) or (3)(a) of the principal Regulations before that date, falls from that date within regulation 4(4) of the principal Regulations (as inserted by regulation 3 of these Regulations).

(2) A Health Board may not terminate a general medical services contract pursuant to paragraph 99 of Schedule 5 to the principal Regulations on the grounds that the person referred to in paragraph (1) is no longer a general medical practitioner for the purposes of regulation 4(1), (2)(a) or (3)(a) of the principal Regulations.