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

Amendment of regulation 24 of the principal Regulations

8.  In regulation 24 of the principal Regulations (regulations that do not result in significant change to pharmaceutical services provision)—

(a) in paragraph (1)(c), for “is satisfied that granting the application would not cause” substitute “is not of the opinion that granting the application would cause”;

(b) in paragraph (2)(d), for “is satisfied that granting the application would not cause” substitute “is not of the opinion that granting the application would cause”; and

(c) in paragraph (3)—

(i) omit “or” at the end of sub-paragraph (b),

(ii) insert “; or” at the end of sub-paragraph (c), and

(iii) after sub-paragraph (c) insert the following sub-paragraph—

“(d) are distance selling premises, unless—

(i) the premises to which the applicant is seeking to relocate are also distance selling premises, and

(ii) if the application was one to which regulation 25(1) applied, it would not be refused pursuant to regulation 25(2).”.