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The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2013

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Distance selling premises applicationsU.K.

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25.—(1) Section 129(2A) of the 2006 Act M1 (regulations as to pharmaceutical services) does not apply to an application—

(a)for inclusion in a pharmaceutical list by a person not already included; or

(b)by a person already included in a pharmaceutical list for inclusion in that list F1...in respect of premises other than those already listed in relation to that person,

in respect of pharmacy premises that are distance selling premises.

(2) [F2NHS England] must refuse an application to which paragraph (1) applies—

(a)if the premises in respect of which the application is made are on the same site or in the same building as the premises of a provider of primary medical services with a patient list; and

(b)unless [F2NHS England] is satisfied that the pharmacy procedures for the pharmacy premises are likely to secure—

(i)the uninterrupted provision of essential services, during the opening hours of the premises, to persons anywhere in England who request those services, and

(ii)the safe and effective provision of essential services without face to face contact between any person receiving the services, whether on their own or on someone else's behalf, and the applicant or the applicant's staff.

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M1Section 129(2A) was inserted by the Health Act 2009 (c. 21), section 26(3), and has been amended by the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), section 207(4), and Schedule 4, paragraph 66(5).

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