The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2012

Deferral of notifiable applications prior to notification

14.—(1) A Primary Care Trust that receives—

(a) a routine application, consideration of which may or must be deferred under regulation 14(1) to (3), 16(1) to (4), 19(1) to (4), 21(1) to (4) or 38(4); or

(b) a notifiable application, consideration of which may be deferred under regulation 32 or 34,

must consider, prior to notifying that application under Part 3 and as soon as is practicable, whether or not to defer consideration of that application under those provisions.

(2) If consideration of the application is deferred prior to notification, once the Primary Care Trust no longer has grounds for deferring the application, it must proceed as soon as is practicable with the notification of the application, unless the application has been withdrawn or the Primary Care Trust is required to treat it as withdrawn.

(3) Notification must not be delayed because of a deferral under regulation 34 in a case where the applicant is relying on paragraph 5(1), unless prior to the decision to defer the applicant’s home Primary Care Trust has provided PCT1 with its recommendation under paragraph 13(2).