{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-general-scotland-regulations-1991/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-general-scotland-regulations-1991/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/573",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Fund-Holding Practices) (General) (Scotland) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-general-scotland-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Additions to existing fund-holding practices",
  "text": "(1) Where a medical practitioner (whether or not he is a member of another fund-holding practice) wishes to become a member of an existing fund-holding practice then, except in the circumstances specified in paragraph (2), he and the members of the existing fundholding practice shall apply to the relevant Health Board for recognition as a fund-holding practice in accordance with the Applications Regulations.\n(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to a medical practitioner who becomes a partner of a member of a fund-holding practice whether in succession to another medical practitioner who has died or has left the practice, or otherwise as a result of the grant of an application made by the medical practitioner to a Health Board under section 20(1) of the Act to be included in the list of names of medical practitioners undertaking to provide general medical services in the area of such a Board and that application has been granted.\n(3) A medical practitioner who becomes a partner of a member of a fund-holding practice in the circumstances described in paragraph (2) shall, as from the date on which he becomes such a partner be a member of that fund-holding practice notwithstanding that he did not participate in the making of an application under regulation 3 of the Applications Regulations.\n(4) Where a person becomes a member of a fund-holding practice and paragraph (2) applies, the practice shall forthwith give written notice to the relevant Health Board of the fact, the date on which he became a partner, the name of the new member and shall send to that Board a copy of any Agreement entered into with the new member for the purposes of regulation 4(2)(e) of the Applications Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1978 c. 29; section 20 was amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), Schedule 6, paragraph 3 and Schedule 7 and by S.I. 1981/432, article 4(1)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/573/regulation/3",
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  },
  "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."
}