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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-scotland-amendment-regulations-1996/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/748",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Fund-Holding Practices) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-scotland-amendment-regulations-1996",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations further amend the National Health Service (Fund-Holding Practices) (Scotland) Regulations 1993 (“the 1993 Regulations”) which regulate the recognition and operation of fund-holding practices.\nRegulation 3 amends regulation 8 (concerning the withdrawal or death of a member of a fund-holding practice) of the 1993 Regulations to provide that where a member of a fund-holding practice withdraws from the practice, a part of any savings accumulated by the practice may be applied by the Health Board for the benefit of his patients.\nRegulation 5 amends regulation 10 (consequences of renunciation of recognition as a fund-holding practice) of the 1993 Regulations to require a former fund-holding practice to apply any accumulated savings to discharge its outstanding liabilities.\nRegulation 7 amends regulation 17 (purchase of goods and services) of the 1993 Regulations to provide that where a patient of a fund-holding practice either refers herself or is referred by another doctor, who is not a member of the fund-holding practice, for services in connection with the termination of pregnancy, the Health Board shall meet the cost of those services.\nRegulation 8 amends regulation 19 (payments of salaries) of the 1993 Regulations to make it clear that the allotted sum can be used for all employment costs including the cost of redundancy and training employees.\nRegulation 9 amends regulation 19A (payment for management expenses) of the 1993 Regulations and extends the purposes on which the management allowance may be spent to include the purchase of computers, certain office expenses and rent payable on accommodation used to accommodate staff employed for fund-holding purposes. The written consent of the Health Board is required before the management allowance can be spent either on the purchase of computers or on rent.\nRegulation 10 amends regulation 20 (savings from the allotted sum) of the 1993 Regulations and makes it clear that savings can be used to build extensions to fund-holders' premises.\nThe Regulations also make a number of amendments which are minor or consequential drafting amendment or procedural in nature.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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