Statutory Instruments

1993 No. 2902

MEDICINES

The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1993

Made

25th November 1993

Laid before Parliament

2nd December 1993

Coming into force

1st January 1994

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 respresentative 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 1993, shall come into force on 1st January 1994.

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

2. In regulation 3 (fees) of the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Regulations 1973(3),

(a)in paragraph (1) (fee for registration of premises), for "£116" there is substituted "£119" and for "£61" (fee where premises are in Northern Ireland) there is substituted "£63",

(b)in paragraph (2) (retention fee), for "£75" there is substituted "£77" and for "£56" (fee where premises are in Northern Ireland) there is substituted "£58",

(c)in paragraph (3) (additional sum by way of penalty), for "£239" there is substituted "£246" and for "£176" (sum where premises are in Northern Ireland) there is substituted "£181".

Revocation

3. The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1992(4) are hereby revoked.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Brian Mawhinney

Minister of State,

Department of Health

19th November 1993

John Redwood

Secretary of State for Wales

25th November 1993

Fraser of Carmyllie

Minister of State, The Scottish Office

23rd November 1993

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

F. A. Elliott

Permanent Secretary

25th day of November 1993.

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 £116 to £119 and, where the premises are in Northern Ireland, from £61 to £63. Regulation 2(b) increases subsequent annual fees (retention fees) from £75 to £77 and, where the premises are in Northern Ireland, from £56 to £58. 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 £239 to £246 and, where the premises are in Northern Ireland, from £176 to £181.

These Regulations revoke the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1992, 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; 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 virtue of 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; relevant amending instruments are S.I.1980/1806 and 1992/2939.

(4)

S.I.1992/2939.