{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-scotland-regulations-1993/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-scotland-regulations-1993/regulation-8.json",
  "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": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Withdrawal or death of a member of a fund-holding practice",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a member of a fund-holding practice may withdraw from the practice and if he does so the remaining members of the practice shall continue to be recognised as a fund-holding practice unless and until the members of the practice renounce recognition or the relevant Health Board removes recognition from the practice in accordance with these Regulations.\n(2) A member of a fund-holding practice who is a partner of another member of the practice may not withdraw from the fund-holding practice unless he also ceases at the same time to be a partner of that other member.\n(3) Where a member of a fund-holding practice dies, the remaining members of the practice shall continue to be recognised as a fund-holding practice unless and until the members of the practice renounce recognition or the relevant Health Board removes recognition from the practice in accordance with these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/748",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Fund-Holding Practices) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1996"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/488/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:03:33.737924+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."
}