Repeatable prescribing services
18.—(1) Where, on 31st March 2004, a relevant medical practitioner met the requirements for providing repeatable prescribing services in regulation 33A of the 1992 Regulations(1) and had, on or before that date, notified the Primary Care Trust of his intention to provide such services in accordance with that paragraph, that notification shall be regarded, on 1st April 2004, as a notification given by the succeeding contractor under—
(a)the term of its general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 40 of Schedule 6 to the 2004 Regulations; or
(b)the equivalent term of its default contract.
(2) For the purposes of a notification regarded as given under sub-paragraph (1), the date on which the succeeding contractor intends to begin to provide repeatable prescribing services included in the notification shall be deemed to be 1st April 2004.
(3) In this paragraph, “repeatable prescribing services” in relation to a relevant medical practitioner has the same meaning as in regulation 2(1) of the 1992 Regulations(2) and in relation to a general medical services contractor or a default contractor has the same meaning as in regulation 2(1) of the 2004 Regulations.