The National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1991

Amendment of regulation 30D of the principal Regulations

6.  In regulation 30D of the principal Regulations (determination of controlled locality)—

(a) after paragraph (4), there shall be inserted the following new paragraph:—

“(4A) Where the Family Health Services Authority—

(a) determines that any area or part of an area is or is not rural in character; and

(b) considers that the provision of general medical services by any doctor, or pharmaceutical services by any pharmacist, is likely to be adversely affected in consequence of that determination;

it shall require such measures as in the opinion of the Family Health Services Authority are likely to reduce, so far as practicable, over such period as it thinks fit, such adverse effects.”;

(b) after paragraph (10), there shall be added the following new paragraph:—

“(11) For the purposes of this regulation, “measures” means the postponement of the making of arrangements under regulation 30 for the provision by a doctor of pharmaceutical services for patients of his, or the postponement of the termination of such arrangements.”.