The National Health Service (Fund-holding Practices) Regulations 1993

Application for recognition as a fund-holding practice

3—(1) An application shall be made in writing on a form approved by the Secretary of State and, subject to paragraphs (4) and (5), shall be sent to the Regional Health Authority.

(2) The application shall be signed by each member of the practice making it.

(3) The practice shall provide, in connection with the application, such information and documents as the Regional Health Authority may reasonably require for the purposes of determining the application.

(4) Where a member of a practice is included in both the medical list of an FHSA whose locality is in England and the medical list of an FHSA whose locality is in Wales, or the members of the practice include a member who is included only in the medical list of an FHSA whose locality is in England and a member who is included only in the medical list of an FHSA whose locality is in Wales, then the application shall be made to–

(a) the Regional Health Authority if more patients on the lists of the members of the practice reside in England than in Wales;

(b) the Secretary of State in any other case.

(5) Where at least one of the members of a practice wishing to make an application is included in the medical list of a Health Board, section 14 of the 1977 Act shall operate subject to the modification that at the end of subsection (1) there shall be added the words “except, if at least one of those practitioners is also providing general medical services in accordance with arrangements under section 19 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978(1), where more patients on the lists of members of the practice reside in Scotland than in England”.

(1)

1978 c. 29.