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2.—(1) An application shall be made in writing on a form approved by the Secretary of State and shall be accompanied by such additional information, including documents and other writings, as the form states may be required to enable the Health Board to determine the application.
(2) The application shall state whether it is an application for recognition as a primary care purchasing practice, a standard fund-holding practice or a purchasing co-operative.
(3) An application shall be signed by each member of the practice making it and shall be sent to the relevant Health Board.
(4) When an application has been made but before it has been determined in accordance with regulation 4, the members of the practice may, by notice to the relevant Health Board signed by each member of the practice, change their application for recognition as a standard fund-holding practice, a primary care purchasing practice, or as the case may be, a purchasing co-operative.
(5) Where at least one of the members of a practice wishing to make an application is on the medical list of a Health Authority, section 87A of the Act shall operate subject to the following modification, namely, 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 29 of the National Health Service Act 1977, where more patients on the list of members of the practice reside in England than in Scotland”.
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