The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1990

Made7th November 1990

Laid before Parliament14th November 1990

Coming into force1st January 1991

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 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 1990, shall come into force on 1st January 1991.

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 “£97” there shall be substituted “£104” and for “£49” (fee where premises are in Northern Ireland) there shall be substituted “£54”;

b

in paragraph (2) (retention fee), for “£62” there shall be substituted “£67” and for “£44” (fee where premises are in Northern Ireland) there shall be substituted “£49”; and

c

in paragraph (3) (additional sum by way of penalty), for “£200” there shall be substituted “£215” and for “£140” (sum where premises are in Northern Ireland) there shall be substituted “£154”.

Revocation3

The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 19894are hereby revoked.

William WaldegraveSecretary of State for Health7th November 1990

David HuntSecretary of State for Wales7th November 1990

Malcolm RifkindSecretary of State for Scotland7th November 1990

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland this Seventh day of November 1990.

D. C. GowdyActing Permanent Secretary

(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 retention fees.

These Regulations also revoke the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1989, which increased the fees in the principal regulations, and whose effect is now spent.