art 18 Additional services in general medical services contracts entered into following a default contract
Where, after 31st March 2004, a Local Health Board enters into a general medical services contract pursuant to article 3 or 5 with a person or persons who, immediately before the coming into force of that general medical services contract, is or are a party to a default contract with that Local Health Board, that general medical services contract must require the contractor to provide in core hours to its registered patients and persons accepted by it as temporary residents such of the additional services as were required to be provided under the default contract, except to the extent that, prior to the signing of the general medical services contract, the Local Health Board which is a prospective party to that contract has accepted in writing a written request from the contractor that the general medical services contract should not require it to provide all or any of those additional services.