The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Amendment Regulations 1998

Amendment of regulation 12 of the principal Regulations

6.  Regulation 12 of the principal Regulations (determination of applications in respect of controlled localities), is amended as follows—

(a) in paragraph (1), after the words “pharmaceutical list” insert—

(i) in sub-paragraph (c), the words “, or in Part 2 of the dispensing doctor list,”, and

(ii) in sub-paragraph (d), the words “, or in Part 2 of whose dispensing doctor list,”;

(b) in paragraph (2)(c), after the words “pharmaceutical list” insert the words “, or in Part 2 of its dispensing doctor list”;

(c) after paragraph (2), insert—

“(2A) Where paragraph (1) or (2) requires a notice to be sent to a person whose name is included in Part 2 of the dispensing doctor list, and that person is not a pilot scheme provider, a notice shall also be sent to the pilot scheme provider under the relevant pilot scheme.”;

(d) in paragraph (10), after the word “Act” insert the words “or who is a pilot scheme provider or a director, officer or employee of a pilot scheme provider or who performs or assists in performing personal medical services under a pilot scheme”;

(e) in paragraph (13), in each of sub-paragraphs (a) and (c), after the words “general medical services” insert the words “, personal medical services, dispensing services”;

(f) in paragraph (14), after the words “general medical services” insert the words “or personal medical services”;

(g) in paragraph (15), after the words “general medical services” insert the words “, or personal medical services”, and

(h) in paragraph (17), in sub-paragraph (a) after the words “that regulation” and in sub-paragraph (b)(i) after the words “regulation 21” insert in each case the words “or any corresponding provision of directions relating to dispensing services”.