The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1998

Statutory Instruments

1998 No. 3085

MEDICINES

The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1998

Made

9th December 1998

Laid before Parliament

11th December 1998

Coming into force

1st January 1999

The Secretaries of State 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 on them by sections 75(1), 76(1), (2) and (6) and 129(5) of the Medicines Act 1968(1) or, as the case may be, those conferred by those provisions and now vested in them(2), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consulting, pursuant to section 129(6) of that Act, such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by these Regulations, hereby make the following Regulations:—

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 1st January 1999.

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

2.  In regulation 3 of the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Regulations 1973(3) (fees)—

(a) in paragraph (1) (fee for registration of premises), for “£131” substitute “£135” and for “£71” (fee where premises are in Northern Ireland) substitute “£73”;

(b) in paragraph (2) (retention fee), for “£84” substitute “£87” and for “£66” (fee where premises are in Northern Ireland) substitute “£68”;

(c) in paragraph (3) (additional sum by way of penalty), for “£270” substitute “£278” and for “£202” (sum where premises are in Northern Ireland) substitute “£208”.

Revocation

3.  The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1997(3) are hereby revoked.

Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State for Health,

Alan Milburn

Department of Health, Minister of State

8th December 1998

Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State for Wales,

Jon Owen Jones

The Welsh Office, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

8th December 1998

Sam Galbraith

The Scottish Office, Minister for Health

9th December 1998

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland this

L.S.

D. C. Gowdy

Permanent Secretary

8th day of December 1998.

Explanatory Note

(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”). Regulation 2(a) increases the fees for registration of premises at which a retail pharmacy business is, or is to be, carried on from £131 to £135 and, where the premises are in Northern Ireland, from £71 to £73. Regulation 2(b) increases subsequent annual fees (retention fees) from £84 to £87 and, where the premises are in Northern Ireland, from £66 to £68. Regulation 2(c) increases the penalty for failure to pay retention fees (payable in circumstances specified in section 76(2) of the Medicines Act 1968) from £270 to £278 and, where the premises are in Northern Ireland, from £202 to £208.

These Regulations also revoke the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1997, which increased the fees in the principal Regulations, the effect of which is spent on the coming into force of these Regulations.

(1)

1968 c. 67. The expression “the Health Ministers” is defined in section 1(1)(a) of that Act as amended by S.I. 1969/388, Schedule 1. The word “prescribed” is defined in section 132(1).

(2)

In the case of the Secretaries of State concerned with health in England and in Wales by virtue of article 2(2) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Transfer of Functions (Wales) Order 1969 (S.I. 1969/388); in the case of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland by virtue of 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; amended by S.I. 1980/1806, 1996/3054 and 1997/2876.