The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1989

Statutory Instruments

1989 No. 1985

MEDICINES

The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1989

Made

30th October 1989

Laid before Parliament

7th November 1989

Coming into force

1st January 1990

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 1(1)(a), 75(1), 76(1), (2) and (6), 129(2) and (5) and 132(1) of the Medicines Act 1968(1) and now vested in them(2) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consulting such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by these Regulations pursuant to section 129(6) of that Act, 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 1989, shall come into force on 1st January 1990.

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“£88” there shall be substituted“£97” and for“£45” there shall be substituted“£49”;

(b) in paragraph (2) (retention fee), for“£56” there shall be substituted“£62” and for“£40” there shall be substituted“£44”; and

(c) in paragraph (3) (additional sum by way of penalty), for“£100” there shall be substituted“£200” and for“£70” there shall be substituted“£140”.

Revocations

4.  The Regulations specified in the Schedule to these Regulations are hereby revoked.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.

D. Mellor

Minister of State,

Department of Health

25th October 1989

Peter Walker

Secretary of State for Wales

25th October 1989

Malcolm Rifkind

Secretary of State for Scotland

25th October 1989

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland this 30th day of October 1989.

F. A. Elliott

Permanent Secretary

Regulation 4

SCHEDULE REGULATIONS REVOKED

• The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1976(4).

• The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1976(5).

• The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1977(6).

• The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1977(7).

• The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1981(8).

• The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1982(9).

• The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1983(10).

• The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1984(11).

• The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1985(12).

• The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1987(13).

• The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1988(14).

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 fees 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 the retention fee.

These Regulations also revoke previous regulations which increased fees in the principal regulations and whose effect is now spent.

(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, 1987/2099 and 1988/2113.

(4)

S.I. 1976/667.

(5)

S.I. 1976/1961.

(6)

S.I. 1977/511.

(7)

S.I. 1977/2077.

(8)

S.I. 1981/1713.

(9)

S.I. 1982/1719.

(10)

S.I. 1983/1787.

(11)

S.I. 1984/1886.

(12)

S.I. 1985/1878.

(13)

S.I. 1987/2099.

(14)

S.I. 1988/2113.