Citation, commencement and extent

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Primary Medical Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2004 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2004 and shall come into force on the day after the Order is made.

(2) The extent of the amendments made by the Schedule is the same as that of the enactments amended, except that paragraph 4(2)(a), (3)(a), (4)(a) and (5) do not extend to Northern Ireland(1).

Consequential amendments

2.  The enactments listed in the Schedule are amended as there specified.

Saving of certain provisions of the Medical Act 1983

3.  Notwithstanding the coming into force of the amendments to sections 11 and 12 of the Medical Act 1983(2) made by paragraph 1 of the Schedule, in relation to any employment before the date on which those amendments came into force in—

(a)an approved medical practice; or

(b)a health centre,

sections 11(4) and 12(2)(a) of the Medical Act 1983 shall have effect as if those amendments had not come into force.