The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2012

Oral hearings

25.—(1) If the Primary Care Trust does decide to hear oral representations, it must—

(a) give the applicant and any additional presenters not less than 14 days notice of the time and place at which the oral representations are to be heard; and

(b) in the case of the applicant, advise the applicant of who apart from the applicant (including other applicants, where the hearing relates to more than one application), has been invited to make representations at the hearing.

(2) For these purposes, a person (P) is an “additional presenter” if—

(a) the application to which the oral hearing relates is a notifiable application;

(b) P was given notice of the application under Part 3 and made representations about the application in accordance with paragraph 19(4), which—

(i) indicated that, if there were to be an oral hearing in relation to the application, P would wish to make oral representations at that hearing, and

(ii) identified a matter about which the Primary Care Trust considers it would be desirable to hear further evidence from P at the oral hearing; and

(c) the Primary Care Trust is satisfied that P made a reasonable attempt to express P’s views on the application adequately in P’s written representations.

(3) If the Primary Care Trust decides at or after an oral hearing that an application is to be deferred, it may (but need not) hold a further oral hearing once the period for which the application is deferred expires.