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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-scotland-regulations-1993/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/488",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Fund-Holding Practices) (Scotland) Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-scotland-regulations-1993",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations consolidate the following Regulations:—\n(a) NHS (Fund-Holding Practices) (Applications and Recognition) (Scotland) Regulations 1990;\n(b) NHS (Fund-Holding Practices) (General) (Scotland) Regulations 1991;\n(c) NHS (Fund-Holding Practices) (Applications and Recognition) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1992.\nThe Regulations also incorporate new provisions specifying the additional purposes for which members of a recognised fundholding practice may use the sum allotted to them for the purchase of health care for their patients, and for the recovery of amounts applied by the members of a recognised fundholding practice otherwise than in accordance with the regulations.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/488/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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