{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-scotland-amendment-regulations-1996/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-scotland-amendment-regulations-1996/regulation-5.json",
  "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",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 10 of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 10 of the principal Regulations (consequences of renunciation of recognition) shall be amended as follows.\n(2) After paragraph (2) there shall be inserted the following new paragraph:—\n“(2A) Where, on the date when the renunciation of recognition takes effect, the members of the fund-holding practice have any outstanding liabilities and the entire allotted sum payable in respect of the financial year ending on that date has been spent, such liabilities shall be met from any accumulated savings.”.\n(3) In paragraph 3 the words “, other than any liabilities in relation to the application of the allotted sum for the purposes specified in regulation 20 (savings from the allotted sum),” shall be omitted.\n(4) For paragraph 4 there shall be substituted—\n“(4) If after a notice under the preceding paragraph has been sent, part of the allotted sum remains in the fund-holding account, the former fund-holding practice shall apply that sum as specified in regulation 20 for the benefit of the patients of the members of the former fund-holding practice in such proportions as the members of the former fund-holding practice may agree or, where they do not agree, in proportion to the respective list sizes of the members of the former fund-holding practice.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/748/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:48:03.255020+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."
}