Regulation 6 Amendment of regulation 5 of the principal Regulations

for paragraph (1), substitute—

“(1)

The Regional Health Authority shall grant recognition as a standard fund-holding practice or as a community fund-holding practice (as the case may be) if it is satisfied that the conditions specified in Schedule 1 in relation to such a practice are fulfilled.”; and

in paragraph (2), at the beginning insert “Subject to paragraph (3)”; and

after paragraph (2), insert—

“(3)

For the purposes only of the payment and application of the management allowance referred to in regulation 22A, recognition shall take effect on the date on which it was granted.”

“(4)

A fund-holding practice which is recognised as such immediately before 1st April 1995 shall be a standard fund-holding practice.”.