Amendment of regulation 13 of the principal Regulations
4. In regulation 13 of the principal Regulations (grounds for removal of recognition), for paragraph (2) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—
“(2) The Regional Health Authority may remove recognition from the members of a fund-holding practice—
(a)where recognition has been granted in accordance with regulation 5(1) but has not yet taken effect in accordance with regulation 5(2), if any one or more of the conditions specified in paragraphs 1, 2 and 5 of Schedule 2 is no longer fulfilled in relation to that practice; and
(b)where recognition has taken effect in accordance with regulation 5(2), if any one or more of the conditions specified in Schedule 2 is no longer fulfilled in relation to that practice.”.