The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2014

Transitional provision in relation to the application of regulation 64(3)(c) of the principal Regulations

16.—(1) Regulation 64(3)(c) of the principal Regulations (distance selling premises: specific conditions) does not apply to distance selling premises—

(a) which before 1st April 2014 were located, otherwise than in breach of the condition set out in regulation 64(3)(c) of the principal Regulations, on the same site or in the same building as the premises of a provider of primary medical services with a patient list; or

(b) where—

(i) before 1st April 2014 an application was granted under the principal Regulations to relocate the retail pharmacy business or appliance contractor business at those premises to the same site or into the same building as the premises of a provider of primary medical services with a patient list, and

(ii) on or after 1st April 2014 that business relocated to that same site or into that same building, and so the premises are distance selling premises of that business.

(2) Expressions used in this regulation which are defined in regulation 2 of the principal Regulations (interpretation) have the meanings given in that regulation.