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31.—(1) Where the contractor has—
(a)received an application for the provision of medical services, other than essential services—
(i)from a person who is not included in the contractor's list of patients,
(ii)from a person that the contractor has not accepted as a temporary resident, or
(iii)made on behalf of a person referred to in paragraph (i) or (ii) by a person specified in paragraph 17(4); and
(b)accepted the person making the application or on whose behalf the application is made as a patient for the provision of the service in question,
the contractor's responsibility for that person terminates in the circumstances described in sub-paragraph (2).
(2) The circumstances described in this sub-paragraph are that—
(a)the contractor is informed that the person no longer wishes the contractor to be responsible for the provision of the service in question;
(b)in a case where the contractor has reasonable grounds for terminating its responsibility to provide the service to the person which do not relate to the person's age, appearance, disability or medical condition, gender or gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation or social class, the contractor informs the person that it no longer wants to be responsible for providing that person with the service in question; or
(c)it comes to the contractor's attention that the person—
(i)no longer resides in the area for which the contractor has agreed to provide the service in question, or
(ii)is no longer included in the list of patients of another contractor to whose registered patients the contractor has agreed to provide that service.
(3) Where a contractor wants to terminate its responsibility for a person under sub-paragraph (2)(b), the contractor must give notice of the termination to that person and the reason for it.
(4) The contractor must keep a written record of any terminations under this paragraph and of the reasons for those terminations and must make this record available to the Board on request.
(5) A termination under sub-paragraph (2)(b) takes effect—
(a)where the grounds for termination are those specified in paragraph 24(1), from the date on which the notice is given; or
(b)in any other case, 14 days after the date on which the notice is given.
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