The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1999

Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 3295

MEDICINES

The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1999

Made

13th December 1999

Laid before Parliament

17th December 1999

Coming into force

1st January 2000

The Secretaries of State concerned with health in England, in Wales and in Scotland and as respects Northern Ireland the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, 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 1999 and shall come into force on 1st January 2000.

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 “£135 ” substitute “£139” and for “£73” (fee where premises are in Northern Ireland) substitute “£75”;

(b) in paragraph (2) (retention fee), for “£87” substitute “ £89” and for “£68” (fee where premises are in Northern Ireland) substitute “£70”;

(c) in paragraph (3) (additional sum by way of penalty), for “£278 ” substitute “£286” and for “£208” (sum where premises are in Northern Ireland) substitute “£213”.

Revocation

3.  The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1998(4) are hereby revoked.

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

John Denham

Minister of State,

Department of Health

8th December 1999

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

David Hanson

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, The Welsh Office

8th December 1999

John Reid

Secretary of State, The Scotland Office

8th December 1999

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety this 13th day of December 1999.

Bairbre de Brún

Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety

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 £135 to £139 and, where the premises are in Northern Ireland, from £73 to £75. Regulation 2(b) increases subsequent annual fees (retention fees) from £87 to £89 and, where the premises are in Northern Ireland, from £68 to £70. 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 £278 to £286 and, where the premises are in Northern Ireland, from £208 to £213.

These Regulations also revoke the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1998, 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. 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); and in the case of the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, by virtue of section 95(5) of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 12 to, the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (c. 47).

(3)

S.I. 1973/1822; amended by S.I. 1980/1806 and 1996/3054, 1997/2876 and 1998/3085.

(4)

S.I. 1998/3085.