1988 No. 2113
MEDICINES

The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1988

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
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) and (6), 129(2) and (5) and 132(1) of the Medicines Act 19681 and now vested in them2 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 commencement1.

These Regulations, which may be cited as the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1988, shall come into force on 1st January 1989.

Amendment of Regulation 3 of the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Regulations 19732.

Regulation 3 of the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Regulations 19733 shall be amended as follows:—

(a)

in paragraph (1) (fee for registration of premises), for “£84” there shall be substituted “£88” and for “£43” there shall be substituted “£45”; and

(b)

in paragraph (2) (retention fee), for “£53” there shall be substituted “£56” and for “£38” there shall be substituted “£40”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

D. Mellor
Minister of State,
Department of Health
Peter Walker
Secretary of State for Wales
Malcolm Rifkind
Secretary of State for Scotland

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland this 2nd day of December 1988.

F. A. Elliot
Permanent Secretary
(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 and the subsequent annual fees (retention fees).