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

Amendment of regulation 34 of the principal Regulations

13.  In regulation 34 of the principal Regulations (deferral of consideration 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 paragraph (1)(b), (c)(ii), (e), (g), (i) and (k), the body corporate making the application, and

(ii) any director or superintendent of the body corporate making the application.”; and

(b) in paragraph (1)—

(i) omit “(A)”,

(ii) in sub-paragraph (a)—

(aa) omit “(or where A is a body corporate, in respect of A or any director or superintendent of A)”, and

(bb) for “A’s removal from its pharmaceutical list, if A” substitute “the person’s removal from the pharmaceutical list, if the person”,

(iii) in sub-paragraph (b), for “A’s removal from its pharmaceutical list, if A” substitute “the person’s removal from the pharmaceutical list, if the person”,

(iv) in sub-paragraph (c)—

(aa) in paragraph (i), omit “(or where A is a body corporate, any director or superintendent of A’s)”,

(bb) in paragraph (ii), omit “(or where A is a body corporate, any director or superintendent of A)”, and

(cc) for “A from the pharmaceutical list if A” substitute “the person from the pharmaceutical list if the person”,

(v) in sub-paragraphs (d), (j) and (k), omit “(and where A is a body corporate, any director or superintendent of A)”,

(vi) in sub-paragraph (e), omit “(or where A is a body corporate, any director or superintendent of A)”,

(vii) in sub-paragraph (f)—

(aa) omit “(or where A is a body corporate, by A or any director or superintendent of A)”, and

(bb) for “A from the pharmaceutical list if A” substitute “the person from the pharmaceutical list if the person”,

(viii) in sub-paragraph (g)—

(aa) omit “(or where A is a body corporate, any director or superintendent of A)”, and

(bb) for “A from the pharmaceutical list if A” substitute “the person from the pharmaceutical list if the person”,

(ix) in sub-paragraph (h)—

(aa) omit “(and where A is a body corporate, any director or superintendent of A)”, and

(bb) for “A from the pharmaceutical list if A” substitute “the person from the pharmaceutical list if the person”,

(x) in sub-paragraph (i)—

(aa) omit “(and where A is a body corporate, any director or superintendent of A)”, and

(bb) for “A from the pharmaceutical list if A” substitute “the person from the pharmaceutical list if the person”, and

(xi) in sub-paragraph (l)(ii), for “A” substitute “the applicant”.