Paragraph 1

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch.1, para.1 revoked by National Health Service (Fund-holding Practices) 1999 reg.25(a)
Sch.1, para.6 amended by National Health Service (Fund-holding Practices) 1999 reg.25(b)
Sch.1, para.1 substituted by National Health Service (Fund-holding Practices) 1997 reg.16(3)
Sch.1, head. rev.in pt. by National Health Service (Fund-holding Practices) 1997 reg.16(2)
Sch.1, para.6 added by National Health Service (Fund-holding Amendment Regulations 1998 Practices) reg.7

On the date on which the application is made there are—

(a)

in the case of an application for recognition as a community fund-holding practice, at least 3,000 patients, or

(b)

in the case of an application for recognition as a standard fund-holding practice, at least 5,000 patients,

on the lists of patients of the members of the practice or, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, it is likely that there will be at least that many patients on those lists on the date on which any recognition would take effect in accordance with regulation 5(2).