The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1997

Made: 4th December 1997

Laid before Parliament: 8th December 1997

Coming into force: 1st January 1998

The Secretaries of State concerned with health in England, in Wales and in Scotland and the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland, acting jointly as the Health Ministers in exercise of powers conferred on them by sections 75(1), 76(1), (2) and (6) and 129(5) of the Medicines Act 1968¹ or, as the case may be, those conferred by those provisions and now vested in them², and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consulting, pursuant to section 129(6) of that Act, such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by these Regulations, hereby make the following Regulations:—

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 1st January 1998.

Amendment of the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Regulations 1973

2

In regulation 3 of the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Regulations 1973³ (fees)—

• (a) in paragraph (1) (fee for registration of premises), for “£128” substitute “£131” and for “£69” (fee where premises are in Northern Ireland) substitute “£71”;

• (b) in paragraph (2) (retention fee), for “£82” substitute “£84” and for “£64” (fee where premises are in Northern Ireland) substitute “£66”;

• (c) in paragraph (3) (additional sum by way of penalty), for “£264” substitute “£270” and for “£197” (sum where premises are in Northern Ireland) substitute “£202”.

Revocation

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The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1996⁴ are hereby revoked.

Signed

Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State for Health,

Alan Milburn — Minister of State, — Department of Health — December 1997

Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State for Wales,

Win Griffiths — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, The Welsh Office — December 1997

Sam Galbraith — Minister of Health, The Scottish Office — December 1997

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland this

D C Gowdy — Permanent Secretary — 3rd day of December 1997.

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Regulations 1973 (“the principal Regulations”). Regulation 2(a) increases the fees for registration of premises at which a retail pharmacy business is, or is to be, carried on from £128 to £131 and, where the premises are in Northern Ireland, from £69 to £71. Regulation 2(b) increases subsequent annual fees (retention fees) from £82 to £84 and, where the premises are in Northern Ireland, from £64 to £66. Regulation 2(c) increases the penalty for failure to pay retention fees (payable in circumstances specified in section 76(2) of the Medicines Act 1968) from £264 to £270 and, where the premises are in Northern Ireland, from £197 to £202.

These Regulations also revoke the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1996, which increased the fees in the principal Regulations, the effect of which is spent on the coming into force of these Regulations.

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