The General Medical Services and Personal Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2004

Review of approval of out of hours arrangements under general medical services contracts which follow default contracts

82.—(1) Where—

(a) an approval of an out of hours arrangement granted under a default contract is to be treated, pursuant to article 44, as an approval granted under the term of a general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 2 of Schedule 7 to the 2004 Regulations; and

(b) on or before the date on which the default contract ceases to have effect, the Primary Care Trust has commenced a review of its approval of that arrangement under the term of the default contract which is equivalent to paragraph 4 of Schedule 7 to the 2004 Regulations but has not yet made its determination,

that review shall continue as if it were a review under the term of the general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 4 of Schedule 7 to the 2004 Regulations, subject to the modification that the 30 days referred to in the term giving effect to paragraph 4(2) of that Schedule shall be treated as beginning with the day on which the Primary Care Trust sent its notice under the equivalent term of the default contract.