art 2 Relevant non-clinical partners
Where — (a) a Local Health Board enters or has entered into a general medical services contract with a registered medical practitioner as one of two or more individuals practising in partnership; (b) on 31st March 2004, that registered medical practitioner was carrying on a business, in the course of which he or she provided services under section 29 of the 1977 Act (arrangements and regulations for general medical services) — (i) in partnership with an individual who was, or with two or more individuals one of whom was, a non-clinical partner, (ii) in partnership with one or more other registered medical practitioners or other individuals, and that partnership employed a person who is or will become a non-clinical partner in the partnership that enters or has entered into that general medical services contract; or (iii) as a sole practitioner and he or she employed a person who is or will become a non-clinical partner in the partnership that enters or has entered into that general medical services contract; and (c) on the date on which the Local Health Board enters or entered into that general medical services contract — (i) the non-clinical partner mentioned in paragraph (b)(i), or (ii) the person mentioned in paragraph (b)(ii) or (b)(iii), is or was a partner in the partnership that enters or has entered into that general medical services contract, that partner in the partnership, as mentioned in sub-paragraph (c), is, for the purposes of article 3, a “relevant non-clinical partner”.