Regulation 2 Amendment of regulation 5 of the Application Regulations

In regulation 5 of the Application Regulations (grant of recognition as a fund-holding practice), for paragraph (1) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—

“(1)

A relevant Regional Health Authority shall grant recognition as a fund-holding practice if it is satisfied—

(a)

that the conditions specified in regulation 6 are fulfilled; and

(b)

that the practice does not include both—

(i)

a member who practises in a partnership where the total number of patients on the lists of patients of the medical practitioners in the partnership exceeds 7,000, and

(ii)

a member who practises in another such partnership.”.