{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-applications-and-recognition-regulations-1990/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-applications-and-recognition-regulations-1990/regulation-5.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/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Grant of recognition as a fund-holding practice",
  "text": "(1) A relevant Regional Health Authority shall grant recognition as a fund-holding practice—\n(a) if it is satisfied that the conditions specified in regulation 6 are fulfilled; and\n(b) in any case where the practice does not include both—\n(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 9,000, and\n(ii) a member who practises in another such partnership.\n(2) Recognition as a fund-holding practice shall be granted so as to take effect from 1st April following the grant of recognition.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1992/636",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Fund-holding Practices) (Amendment) Regulations 1992"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1753/regulation/5",
    "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."
}