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

Determination that an area is a controlled locality U.K.

36.—(1) Any area that was, or was part of, a controlled locality for the purposes of the 2012 Regulations immediately before these Regulations come into force continues to be, or to be part of, a controlled locality for the purposes of these Regulations (unless or until it is determined that the area is no longer, or no longer part of, a controlled locality).

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), the NHSCB may at any time consider and determine whether or not any locality, because it is rural in character, is to be, or to be part of, a controlled locality.

(3) Where the question of whether or not an area is to be, or to be part of, a controlled locality has been determined by the NHSCB, a Primary Care Trust or on appeal (whether under these Regulations, the 2012 Regulations or the 2005 Regulations), that question must not be considered again in relation to that area—

(a) for 5 years, beginning with the date of the determination of the NHSCB or the Primary Care Trust, or if that determination was appealed, the date of the decision on appeal;

(b) unless the NHSCB is satisfied (within that 5 years) that there has been a substantial change in circumstances in relation to that area since the question was last determined.