Amendment of regulation 17 of the principal Regulations

7.  In regulation 17(2B) of the principal Regulations (payment for goods and services), for the words “Where such notice has been given,” there shall be substituted the following:—

Where—

(a)the members of the practice have given notice as mentioned in paragraph (2A); or

(b)a patient of a member of a practice either refers herself for such services to a Health Board or an NHS Trust or is referred by a doctor who is not a member of the fund-holding practice,.