{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-applications-and-recognition-regulations-1990/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-applications-and-recognition-regulations-1990/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1753",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Fund-holding Practices) (Applications and Recognition) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-applications-and-recognition-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Application for recognition as a fund-holding practice",
  "text": "(1) An application shall be made in writing on a form approved by the Secretary of State and, subject to paragraphs (4) and (5), shall be sent to the relevant Regional Health Authority.\n(2) The practice shall provide, in connection with the application, such information and documents as the relevant Regional Health Authority may reasonably require for the purposes of determining the application.\n(3) The application shall be signed by each member of the practice making it.\n(4) Where a member of a practice is on both the medical list of a Family Health Services Authority whose locality is in England and the medical list of a Family Health Services Authority whose locality is in Wales or the members of the practice include a member who is only on the medical list of a Family Health Services Authority whose locality is in England and a member who is only on the medical list of a Family Health Services Authority whose locality is in Wales, then the application shall be made to—\n(a) the relevant Regional Health Authority if more patients on the lists of the members of the practice reside in England than in Wales; and\n(b) the Secretary of State in any other case.\n(5) Where a member of a practice is on both the medical list of a Family Health Services Authority whose locality is in England and the medical list of a Health Board or the members of the practice include a member who is only on the medical list of a Family Health Services Authority whose locality is in England and a member who is only on the medical list of a Health Board, then the application shall be made to the relevant Regional Health Authority if more patients on the lists of the members of the practice reside in England than in Scotland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See S.I. 1990/1754 for applications by practices with more patients residing in Scotland than in England."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/582",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Fund-holding Practices) (General) Regulations 1991"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1753/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:07:54.945517+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."
}