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

Applications involving a change of ownership

16.—(1) A Local Health Board must grant an application made by a person under regulation 8(1)(a), (b)(i) or (ii) (applications to be included in or for amendment to a pharmaceutical list) who intends to provide pharmaceutical services at premises from which those services are, at the time of the application, provided by another person who is included in a pharmaceutical list maintained by the Local Health Board under regulation 3 (preparation and maintenance of pharmaceutical lists) if the Local Health Board is satisfied that—

(a) the premises are already included in a pharmaceutical list maintained by the Local Health Board;

(b) the same pharmaceutical services will continue to be provided from the premises; and

(c) the provision of pharmaceutical services will not be interrupted (except for such period as the Local Health Board may for good cause allow).

(2) In determining an application under this regulation which has been made under regulation 8(1)(a) (except where the application has been made by a person who has been granted preliminary consent under regulation 12 which is valid in accordance with regulation 12(5)), or under regulation 12 where the applicant is not already included in that Local Health Board’s pharmaceutical list a Local Health Board may—

(a) defer consideration of the application on fitness grounds under regulation 31 (deferral of applications on fitness grounds);

(b) refuse the application on fitness grounds under regulation 32 (refusal of applications on fitness grounds); or

(c) impose conditions on the grant of the application under regulation 33 (conditional inclusion relating to fitness grounds).