Regulation 20 Savings from the allotted sum
Where the accounts for a financial year of members of a fund-holding practice have been audited in accordance with Part III of the Local Government Finance Act 1982f1 the members of a fund-holding practice may continue to apply any part of the allotted sum paid to them in respect of that financial year for the purposes specified in regulations 17 and 19 and, in addition, for a period of four years after the end of that financial year, for any one or more of the following purposes—
the purchase of material or equipment which—
can be used for the treatment of patients of the practice,
enhances the comfort or convenience of patients of the practice,
enables the practice to be managed more effectively and efficiently; or
the purchase of material or equipment relating to health education; or
the improvement of any premises from which the members of the practice carry on their practice whether by improving the structure of the premises or the purchase of furniture and furnishings for the premises.
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