10.—(1) In respect of the area of each HWB, the NHSCB must prepare, maintain and publish 2 lists of persons (if there are any), other than medical practitioners or dental practitioners, who undertake to provide pharmaceutical services from premises situated in that area.
(2) Those lists (which are pharmaceutical lists) are—
(a)a list of persons who undertake to provide pharmaceutical services in particular by way of the provision of drugs; and
(b)a list of persons who undertake to provide pharmaceutical services only by way of the provision of appliances.
(3) Those lists must include—
(a)the address of the premises in the area of the HWB at which the listed person has undertaken to provide pharmaceutical services (“the listed chemist premises”);
(b)the days on which and times at which, at those premises, the listed person is to provide those services during the core opening hours and any supplementary opening hours of the premises.
(4) In respect of the area of each HWB but subject to paragraph (5), the NHSCB must—
(a)prepare, maintain and publish a list (to be called an “EPS list”) of all the NHS chemists situated in that area who participate in the Electronic Prescription Service; and
(b)include on its EPS list the address of any premises at which the Electronic Prescription Service is provided.
(5) The NHSCB need not prepare, maintain and publish an EPS list for a HWB area if it is clear from its pharmaceutical lists for that area which NHS chemists situated in that area participate in the Electronic Prescription Service and where in that area the Electronic Prescription Service is provided.
(6) The NHSCB must ensure that each HWB has access to the pharmaceutical lists and any EPS lists that it holds which is sufficient to enable the HWB to carry out its functions under these Regulations.
(7) Schedule 2, which has effect, contains provisions with regard to—
(a)the information to be supplied by a person—
(i)seeking inclusion in a pharmaceutical list who is not already included in it, or
(ii)who is included in a pharmaceutical list and who is seeking—
(aa)to open, within the area of the relevant HWB, additional premises from which to provide the same or different pharmaceutical services,
(bb)to relocate to different premises, and at those premises to provide the same or different pharmaceutical services, or
(cc)to provide, from the person’s listed chemist premises, services that are in addition to those already listed in relation to that person; and
(b)the procedure to be followed by persons as mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) when making a routine application or an excepted application; and
(c)other related matters.
(8) Schedule 3 has effect in relation to appeals to the Secretary of State against decisions under Parts 2 to 5 and Schedule 2 (as it does in relation to appeals against decisions under Parts 7, 8, 10 and 12).