The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1987

Statutory Instruments

1987 No. 2099

MEDICINES

The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1987

Made

2nd December 1987

Laid before Parliament

11th December 1987

Coming into force

1st January 1988

The Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health in England, in Wales and in Scotland and the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland, acting jointly as the Health Ministers in exercise of powers conferred by sections 75(1), 76(1), (2) and (6), 129(2) and (5) and 132(1) of the Medicines Act 1968(1) and now vested in them(2) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consulting such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by these Regulations pursuant to section 129(6) of that Act hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations, which may be cited as the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1987, shall come into force on 1st January 1988.

Amendment of the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Regulations 1973

2.  Regulation 3 of the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Regulations 1973(3) shall be amended as follows:—

(a) in paragraph (1) (fee for registration of premises), for “£80” there shall be substituted “£84” and for “£41” there shall be substituted “£43”;

(b) in paragraph (2) (retention fee), for “£50” there shall be substituted “£53” and for “£36.50” there shall be substituted “£38”; and

(c) in paragraph (3) (additional sum by way of penalty), for “£55” there shall be substituted “£100” and for “£39.50” there shall be substituted “£70”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Services.

Tony Newton

Minister of State,

Department of Health and Social Security

27th November 1987

Peter Walker

Secretary of State for Wales

26th November 1987

Malcolm Rifkind

Secretary of State for Scotland

26th November 1987

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland this 2nd day of December 1987.

L.S.

F. A. Elliott

Permanent Secretary

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Regulations 1973. They increase the fees for registration of premises at which a retail pharmacy business is or is to be carried on, the subsequent annual fees (retention fees) and the penalty (payable in circumstances specified in section 76(2) of the Medicines Act 1968) for failure to pay a retention fee.

(1)

1968 c. 67; section 132(1) is cited for the definition of “prescribed”.

(2)

The regulation-making powers in sections 75 and 76 of the Medicines Act 1968 are vested, by section 76(6), in “the Health Ministers”, who are defined by section 1(1)(a) as amended by article 2(2) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Transfer of Functions (Wales) Order 1969, as the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health in England, in Wales and in Scotland and the Minister of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland; but the powers of the latter are now vested in the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland by section 40 of, and Schedule 5 to, the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), and section 1(3) of, and paragraph 2(1)(b) of Schedule 1 to, the Northern Ireland Act 1974 (c. 28).

(3)

S.I. 1973/1822, as amended by S.I. 1980/1806 and 1985/1878.