Recovery of misapplied sums
16.—(1) Notwithstanding the repeal of the fund-holding provisions, the National Assembly may on or after 1st April 2000 apply the procedure in regulation 26 of the 1996 Regulations(1) to determine whether any part of the allotted sum has been misapplied by the former members of a fund-holding practice and the Health Authority may recover in accordance with that regulation any sum found to have been applied and regulation 26 of the 1996 Regulations shall apply to such determinations and recoveries as though the fund-holding provisions had not been repealed.
(2) Paragraph (1) shall apply whether or not the procedures to determine whether a sum had been misapplied or to recover such a sum had been begun before 1st April 2000.
Regulation 26 of the 1996 Regulations was amended by S.I. 1999/261, regulation 24.