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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-scotland-amendment-regulations-1993/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/1369",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Fund-Holding Practices) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1993",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations make amendments to the National Health Service (Fund-Holding -Practices) (Scotland) Regulations 1993 (“the principal Regulations”).\nRegulation 5 of the principal Regulations is amended to permit a person other than a member of the practice to represent the practice in an appeal to the Secretary of State against a refusal of recognition as a fund-holding practice by a Health Board. Drafting amendments are made to regulations 6 and 17 of the principal Regulations.\nA new paragraph is inserted in regulation 20 of the principal Regulations to make clear that in exercising their purchasing decisions the members of a fund-holding practice may take into account the possible benefit to all their patients of making savings.\nA new Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations is substituted detailing the services in respect of which a member of a fund-holding practice may receive payment pursuant to an arrangement under regulation 18 of the principal Regulations.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/1369/note",
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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."
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