Statutory Instruments

1992 No. 2939

MEDICINES

The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1992

Made

24th November 1992

Laid before Parliament

1st December 1992

Coming into force

1st January 1993

The Secretaries of State respectively 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 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 the said 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, which may be cited as the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1992, shall come into force on 1st January 1993.

Amendment of Regulation 3 of the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Regulations 1973

2. Regulation 3 of the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Regulations 1973(3) shall be amended as follows:-�

(a)in paragraph (1) (fee for registration of premises), for "£113" there shall be substituted "£116" and for "£58" (fee where premises are in Northern Ireland) there shall be substituted "£61";

(b)in paragraph (2) (retention fee), for "£73" there shall be substituted "£75" and for "£53" (fee where premises are in Northern Ireland) there shall be substituted "£56";

(c)in paragraph (3) (additional sum by way of penalty), for "£233" there shall be substituted "£239" and for "£166" (sum where premises are in Northern Ireland) there shall be substituted "£176".

Revocation

3. The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1991(4) are hereby revoked.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Brian Mawhinney

Minister,

Department of Health

20th November 1992

David Hunt

Secretary of State for Wales

20th November 1992

Fraser of Carmyllie

Minister of State, Scottish Office

24th November 1992

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

L.S.

F. A. Elliott

Permanent Secretary

23rd day of November 1992.

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"). They increase the fee for registration of premises at which a retail pharmacy business is, or is to be, carried on, the subsequent annual fees (retention fees) and the penalty (payable in circumstances specified in section 76(2) of the Medicines Act 1968) for failure to pay retention fees.

These Regulations also revoke the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1991 which increased the fees in the principal regulations, and the effect of which is spent on the coming into force of these Regulations.

(1)

1968 c. 67; see the definitions in section 1(1)(a) of "the Health Ministers" and in section 132(1) of "prescribed".

(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 Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland by 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; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1980/1806 and 1991/2605.

(4)

S.I. 1991/2605.