1989 No. 1985

MEDICINES

The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1989

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 1(1)(a), 75(1), 76(1), (2) 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 1989, shall come into force on 1st January 1990.

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“£88” there shall be substituted“£97” and for“£45” there shall be substituted“£49”;

b

in paragraph (2) (retention fee), for“£56” there shall be substituted“£62” and for“£40” there shall be substituted“£44”; and

c

in paragraph (3) (additional sum by way of penalty), for“£100” there shall be substituted“£200” and for“£70” there shall be substituted“£140”.

Revocations4

The Regulations specified in the Schedule to these Regulations are hereby revoked.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.

D. MellorMinister of State,Department of Health
Peter WalkerSecretary of State for Wales
Malcolm RifkindSecretary of State for Scotland

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland this 30th day of October 1989.

F. A. ElliottPermanent Secretary

SCHEDULEREGULATIONS REVOKED

Regulation 4

  • The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 19764.

  • The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 19765.

  • The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 19776.

  • The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 19777.

  • The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 19818.

  • The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 19829.

  • The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 198310.

  • The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 198411.

  • The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 198512.

  • The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 198713.

  • The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 198814.

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Regulations 1973 (“the principal regulations”). 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 the retention fee.

These Regulations also revoke previous regulations which increased fees in the principal regulations and whose effect is now spent.