The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2014

Amendment of regulation 33 of the principal Regulations

12.  In regulation 33 of the principal Regulations (refusal of applications for inclusion in a pharmaceutical list on fitness grounds)—

(a) before paragraph (1), insert the following paragraph—

“(A1) In this regulation, “A” means, where an application for inclusion in a pharmaceutical list is made by a person who is—

(a) an individual, the individual making the application;

(b) a partnership, any partner in the partnership making the application; or

(c) a body corporate—

(i) except for the purposes of paragraphs (1)(a) and (b) and (3)(h)(i), the body corporate making the application, and

(ii) except for the purposes of paragraph (2)(b) and (e), any director or superintendent of the body corporate making the application.”;

(b) in paragraph (1)—

(i) omit “(A)”, and

(ii) in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b), omit “(or where A is a body corporate, any director or superintendent of A)”;

(c) in paragraphs (2)(c)(i) and (ii) and (d)(i) and (ii), and (3)(g) and (h), omit “(and where A is a body corporate, any director or superintendent of A)”; and

(d) in paragraph (3)(g) and (h), omit “(and where A is a body corporate, any director or superintendent of A)”.