Regulation 11 Amendment of regulation 20 of the principal Regulations

For regulation 20(2) of the principal Regulations (purchase of goods and services) substitute—

“(2)

The goods and services referred to in paragraph (1) are the goods and services specified, in the case of standard fund-holding practices in Part I and in the case of community fund-holding practices in Part II, of a list approved from time to time by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this regulation.

(2A)

Where—

(a)

the list mentioned in paragraph (2) includes services in connection with the termination of pregnancy; and

(b)

the members of a fund-holding practice do not wish to purchase such services in any financial year,

they may give notice to that effect to the Regional Health Authority by 31st July in the preceding year.

(2B)

Where such notice has been given, the cost of any such services as are provided to individuals on the lists of patients of members of the practice in the financial year in question shall be met by the District Health Authority whose primary functions include the provision of goods and services to those individuals.”.