{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-regulations-1993/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-regulations-1993/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/567",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Fund-holding Practices) Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-regulations-1993",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Additions to existing fund-holding practices",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), 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–\n(a) he and the members of the existing fund-holding practice shall apply to the Regional Health Authority for recognition as a fund-holding practice in accordance with regulation 3; but\n(b) regulations 4 and 5(2) shall not apply in the case of that application.\n(2) Where a medical practitioner becomes a partner of a member of a fund-holding practice as a result of the grant of an application made by the medical practitioner to an FHSA under regulation 5 of the National Health Service (General Medical Services) Regulations 1992(application for inclusion in the medical list or to succeed to a vacancy), he shall, on giving notice in writing to that effect to the Regional Health Authority, be a member of that fund-holding practice notwithstanding that he did not join in the making of an application under regulation 3.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/635, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "rev. in pt.",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/3280",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Fund-holding Practices) (Functions of Family Health Services Authorities) Regulations 1995"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/567/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:02:45.400613+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."
}