The General Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions (Wales) (No. 2) Order 2004

Newly registered patients

42.—(1) Where a patient of a default contractor—

(a) was, immediately before the default contract ceased to have effect, entitled to be invited to participate in a consultation under the term of the default contract equivalent to paragraph 4 of Schedule 6 to the 2004 Regulations; and

(b) had not been given such an invitation,

that patient shall be regarded as a patient of the general medical services contractor who, on the date on which the general medical services contract takes effect, falls within the term of the general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 4 of Schedule 6 to the 2004 Regulations.

(2) In the case of a patient to whom paragraph (1) applies, the reference to a period of six months in the term of the general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 6 to the 2004 Regulations shall be read as if it was a reference to six months from the date of the patient’s acceptance on or assignment to the default contractor’s list.