Regulation 2 Application for recognition as a fund-holding practice

An application shall be made in writing on a form approved by the Secretary of State and shall be accompanied by such additional information, including documents and other writings, as the form states may be required to enable the Health Board to determine the application.

An application shall be signed by each member of the practice making it and shall be sent to the relevant Health Board.

Where at least one of the members of a practice wishing to make an application is on the medical list of a Family Health Services Authority, section 87A of the Act shall operate subject to the following modification, namely, at the end of subsection (1) there shall be added the words “except, if at least one of those practitioners is also providing general medical services in accordance with arrangements under section 29 of the National Health Service Act 1977^f1, where more patients on the lists of members of the practice reside in England than in Scotland”.