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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-regulations-1996/regulation-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-regulations-1996/regulation-26.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/26",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Recovery of misapplied sums",
  "text": "(1) Where the Secretary of State has determined, in accordance with this regulation, that any part of an allotted sum has been applied by the members of a fund-holding practice (or any one or more of them) otherwise than in accordance with regulation 19, 20, 22, 23, 24 and 25, the Health Authority may seek to recover that amount in accordance with paragraph (6).\n(2) The Secretary of State shall send to each member of the practice a notice informing them of the amount which it is alleged has been misapplied and the nature and circumstances of the alleged misapplication and that they may make representations to the Secretary of State concerning the matter, either orally or in writing.\n(3) Where the members of a fund-holding practice wish to make representations in writing, they shall do so within the period of two months beginning with the date on which the notice referred to in paragraph (2) was sent.\n(4) Where the members of the practice wish to make representations orally they shall, within the period of 2 weeks beginning with the date on which the notice referred to in paragraph (2) was sent, give notice to that effect to the Secretary of State and the Secretary of State shall appoint a person or persons to hear those representations and to report to him within the period of 6 weeks of the date on which the members of the fund-holding practice gave notice under this paragraph.\n(5) Where the Secretary of State, having taken into account any representations made by the members of the fund-holding practice, is satisfied that any part of an allotted sum has been misapplied as mentioned in paragraph (1), he shall—\n(a) send to each member of the practice a notice of his determination to that effect; and\n(b) include in the notice a statement of the reasons for his decision.\n(6) An amount equal to that part of the allotted sum which the Secretary of State has determined has been misapplied as mentioned in paragraph (1) shall be recoverable from the members of the practice (or from any one or more of them) by the Health Authority as a civil debt.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "rev.in pt. (saving)",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/261",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Fund-holding Practices) Amendment Regulations 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/2541",
      "affecting_title": "The Health Act 1999 (Fund-holding Practices) (Transfer of Assets, Savings, Rights and Liabilities and Transitional Provisions) Order 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "referred to (application cont.)",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/2541",
      "affecting_title": "The Health Act 1999 (Fund-holding Practices) (Transfer of Assets, Savings, Rights and Liabilities and Transitional Provisions) Order 1999"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/706/regulation/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:48:33.803383+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."
}