Statutory Instruments
MEDICINES
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:
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.
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”.
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.
(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.
1968 c. 67; see the definitions in section 1(1)(a) of “the Health Ministers” and in section 132(1) of “prescribed”.
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).
S.I.1992/2939.