{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-regulations-1996/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-regulations-1996/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/706",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Fund-holding Practices) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Application for change in status of recognised fund-holding practice",
  "text": "(1) A community fund-holding practice may apply to become a standard fund-holding practice and a standard fund-holding practice may apply to become a community fund-holding practice.\n(2) In this regulation, an application under paragraph (1) is referred to as an “application for change in fund-holding status”.\n(3) An application for change in fund-holding status to take effect from 1st April in any year shall be made by 1st July in the preceding year or, in the case of an application from a standard fund-holding practice to become a community fund-holding practice, such later date as the Health Authority may agree.\n(4) Regulation 3 (except for paragraph (4)) and regulations 5 and 6 shall apply to an application for change in fund-holding status as they apply to an application for recognition as a fund-holding practice but as if the references in those regulations—\n(a) to an application were references to an application for change in fund-holding status; and\n(b) to the grant or refusal of recognition were references to the grant or refusal of an application for change in fund-holding status.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/261",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Fund-holding Practices) Amendment Regulations 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/747",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Fund-holding Practices) Amendment Regulations 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/747",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Fund-holding Practices) Amendment Regulations 1997"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/706/regulation/10",
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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."
}