The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Wales) Regulations 2013

Procedure following grant of an application

17.—(1) Following the date of the grant of an application made under regulation 8 (applications to be included in or for amendment to a pharmaceutical list), a Local Health Board must not include a person in a pharmaceutical list or amend a pharmaceutical list unless—

(a) the condition in paragraph (2) is satisfied; and

(b) the requirements of regulation 33 (conditional inclusion relating to fitness grounds), if any, are met as regards the imposition of conditions on any person.

(2) A person will be included in the relevant pharmaceutical list or the relevant pharmaceutical list will be amended as appropriate if, not less than 14 days before the end of the relevant period, he or she notifies the Local Health Board in writing, providing the information specified in Part 3 of Schedule 1, that he or she will within the next 14 days commence the provision at the premises of the services that were specified in the application.

(3) For the purposes of this regulation and, where relevant, regulation 18—

(a) “the date of the grant of an application” (“y dyddiad y caniateir cais”) is the date which is the later of either—

(i) 30 days after notice of the Local Health Board’s decision on the application was sent by the Local Health Board in accordance with paragraph 14 of Schedule 2; or

(ii) the date of the determination of any appeal that is brought against the decision of the Local Health Board,

and “granted” (“caniatawyd”) is to be construed accordingly; and

(b) “the relevant period” (“cyfnod perthnasol”) is—

(i) the period of six months from the date an application is granted; or

(ii) such further period in addition to that specified in sub-paragraph (a) not exceeding three months that the Local Health Board may for good cause allow.