{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-and-community-care-act-1990/section-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-and-community-care-act-1990/section-15.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1990/19",
  "legislation_title": "National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-and-community-care-act-1990",
  "path": "section/15",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Payments to recognised fund-holding practices.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) In any case where—\n(a) a Health Authority make a payment of, or of any part of, an allotted sum to the members of a recognised fund-holding practice, and\n(b) some of the individuals on the list of patients of any of the members of the practice reside in the area of another Health Authority, or in the area of a Health Board,\nthe Health Authority making the payment shall be entitled to recover from that other Health Authority, or from that Health Board, an amount equal to such portion of the payment as may be determined in accordance with directions given by the Secretary of State.\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 15 repealed (1.10.1999 for E., 1.4.2000 for W. and otherwise prosp.) by 1999 c. 8, ss. 1, 65, Sch. 5; S.I. 1999/2540, art. 2(1)(a), Sch. 1; S.I. 2000/1026, art. 2(1), Sch.; S.I. 2000/1041, art. 2(d), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 15(2)(5) and (8) repealed (1.4.1996 subject to s. 8 of the amending Act) by 1995 c. 17, ss. 2(1)(3), 5(1)(2), Sch. 1 para. 74(b)(e) and (g), Sch. 3 (with Sch. 2 paras. 6, 16)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 15(4) substituted (1.4.1996 subject to s. 8 of the amending Act) by 1995 c. 17, s. 2(1)(3), Sch. 1 Pt. II para. 74(a) (with Sch. 2 paras. 6, 16)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 15 wholly in force at 1.4.1991 see s. 67(1) and S.I. 1990/1329, art. 2(8), Sch. 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "S. 15 other than s. 15(4) does not extend to Scotland"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/19/section/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:43:11.905057+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}