{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-scotland-regulations-1997/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-scotland-regulations-1997/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1014",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Fund-Holding Practices) (Scotland) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-scotland-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Application for change in status of recognised fund-holding practice",
  "text": "(1) A primary care purchasing practice may apply to become a standard fund-holding practice and a standard fund-holding practice may apply to become a primary care purchasing practice.\n(2) A purchasing co-operative may not apply to become a standard fund-holding practice or a primary care purchasing practice and neither a standard fund-holding practice nor a primary care purchasing practice may apply to become a purchasing co-operative.\n(3) In this regulation, an application under paragraph (1) is referred to as an “application for change in fund-holding status”.\n(4) An application for change in fund-holding status to take effect from 1st April in any year shall be made by 30th September in the preceding year or, in the case of an application from a standard fund-holding practice to become a primary care purchasing practice, such later date as the Health Board may agree.\n(5) Regulation 2 (except for paragraph (4)), and regulations 3 and 4 shall apply to an application for change in fund-holding status as they apply to an application for recognition as a fund-holding practice but as if the references in those regulations–\n(a) to an application were references to an application for change in fund-holding status; and\n(b) to the grant or refusal of recognition were references to the grant or refusal of an application for change in fund-holding status.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/365",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Fund-Holding Practices) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/658",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Fund-holding Practices) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1998"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1014/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:10:03.441962+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."
}