# The National Health Service (Fund-Holding Practices) (General) (Scotland) Regulations 1991, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations include provisions specifying the conditions which the members of a recognised fund-holding practice must fulfil if they are to continue to be entitled to recognition as a fund-holding practice, contain provisions relating to the renunciation or removal of recognition as such a practice and specify the purposes for which the members of a recognised fund-holding practice may use the sum allotted to them for the purchase of health care for their patients.
A recognised fund-holding practice is a practice comprising one or more medical practitioners, who are providing general medical services in accordance with arrangements under section 19 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (c. 29), which has been recognised as a recognised fund-holding practice by a Health Board under section 87A of that Act (as inserted by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19)) and which, in consequence of recognition, is entitled to be paid an allotted sum in accordance with section 87B of the Act.
The Regulations, which come into force on 1st April 1990 include provision about—
(a) the interpretation of the Regulations (Part 1),
(b) the conditions for continuing to be entitled to recognition as a recognised fundholding practice and additions to and withdrawals from a recognised fund-holding practice (Part 11),
(c) renunciation of recognition including the procedure for renunciation and its consequences (Part III),
(d) removal of recognition as a recognised fund-holding practice, including specifying the grounds for removal, the procedure for removal, appeals against removal and the consequences of removal (Part IV), and
(e) the purposes for which allotted sums may be applied (Part V).
The Regulations also effect an amendment of the National Health Service (Fund-Holding Practices) (Applications and Recognition) (Scotland) Regulations 1990 in relation to applications from medical practitioners who have patients in England and Scotland (Part VI).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/573/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-general-scotland-regulations-1991/note
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