Regulation 23 Amendment of regulations

In regulation 3 of the Application Regulations (applications for recognition as a fund-holding practice), for paragraph (5) there is substituted the following paragraph—

“(5)

Where at least one of the members of a practice wishing to make an application is on the medical list of a Health Board, section 14 of the Act shall operate subject to the modification that at the end of subsection (1) there shall be added the words “except, if at least one of those practitioners is also providing general medical services in accordance with arrangements under section 19 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978^f1, where more patients on the lists of members of the practice reside in Scotland than in England”.”