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Removals from the list of patients who have moved
8.—(1) Where, on or before 31st March 2004, a Local Health Board had informed a patient and a relevant medical practitioner, in accordance with regulation 23(2) of the 1992 Regulations(), that the medical practitioner was no longer obliged to visit and treat him or her but the 30 days referred to in that regulation had not yet expired, that information shall be regarded as if it had been given under—
(a)the term of the succeeding contractor’s general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 23 of Schedule 6 to the 2004 Regulations, subject to the modification that the reference to the period of 30 days in the term which gives effect to paragraph 23(1)(c) shall be read as a reference to 30 days from the date of the information given by the Local Health Board under regulation 23(2) of the 1992 Regulations; or
(b)the equivalent term of its default contract subject to a modification to the same effect.
(2) Where, on or before 31st March 2004, a Local Health Board had given a relevant medical practitioner notice in writing, in accordance with regulation 23(4) of the 1992 Regulations(), that it intended to remove a person from the practitioner’s list of patients but the six months referred to in that regulation had not yet expired, that notice shall be regarded as if it had been given to the succeeding contractor under—
(a)the term of its general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 24 of Schedule 6 to the 2004 Regulations, subject to the modification that the reference to the period of six months in the term which gives effect to paragraph 24(a) shall be read as a reference to six months from the date of the notice given by the Local Health Board under regulation 23(4) of the 1992 Regulations; or
(b)the equivalent term of its default contract subject to a modification to the same effect.
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