The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2005

Lapse of outline consent and premises approval

63.—(1) An outline consent shall cease to have effect—

(a) where no arrangement under regulation 60 has been made pursuant to it within 12 months from its taking effect;

(b) where more than 12 months have elapsed since the last provision of drugs and appliances under an arrangement made pursuant to regulation 60;

(c) in accordance with regulations 62(10) or (13); or

(d) where there is a practice amalgamation and following the amalgamation there are no practice premises which have premises approval.

(2) Premises approval shall cease to have effect in relation to—

(a) listed premises which have permanently ceased to be practice premises;

(b) listed premises which have not been used for dispensing by any doctor authorised to dispense from those premises for six months or such longer period as the Primary Care Trust may for good cause allow;

(c) listed premises where a doctor who has outline consent to dispense from those premises has notified the Primary Care Trust that all the doctors who have authority to dispense from those premises have ceased to do so;

(d) listed premises where there is no doctor with premises approval in respect of them remaining on the dispensing doctor list; or

(e) listed premises which were granted premises approval under regulation 66(3), where no practice amalgamation takes place within the period specified in regulation 66(7).

(3) Premises approval shall cease to have effect where the relating outline consent ceases to have effect.