{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-amendment-regulations-1992/regulation-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/636",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Fund-holding Practices) (Amendment) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-amendment-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 4 of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "For regulation 4 of the principal Regulations (additions to existing fund-holding practices), there shall be substituted the following regulation:—\n“Additions to existing fund-holding practices\n4 (1) Subject to paragraph (2), where a medical practitioner (whether or not he is a member of another fund-holding practice) wishes to become a member of an existing fund-holding practice—\n(a) he and the members of the existing fund-holding practice shall apply to the relevant Regional Health Authority for recognition as a fund-holding practice in accordance with the Application Regulations; but\n(b) regulations 4 and 5(2) of the Application Regulations (time of application and grant of recognition as a fund-holding practice) shall not apply in the case of that application.\n(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to a medical practitioner who becomes a partner of a member of a fund-holding practice as a result of the grant of an application made by the medical practitioner to a Family Health Services Authority under regulation 5 of the National Health Service (General Medical Services) Regulations 1992 (application for inclusion in the medical list or to succeed to a vacancy).\n(3) Where a medical practitioner becomes a partner of a member of a fund-holding practice as a result of the grant of an application mentioned in paragraph (2), he shall, on giving notice in writing to that effect to the relevant Regional Health Authority, be a member of that fund-holding practice notwithstanding that he did not join in the making of an application under regulation 3 of the Application Regulations.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/635."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/636/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:25:51.609505+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."
}