The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2013 No. 349

PART 7 U.K. Areas that are controlled localities or reserved locations, and new pharmacies within them

Process for determining controlled localities: preliminary matters U.K.

37.—(1) A Local Medical Committee or Local Pharmaceutical Committee may apply in writing to the NHSCB for it to determine whether or not an area specified in the application (which must be all or part of the Committee's area) is to be, or is to be part of, a controlled locality.

(2) Before considering the application, the NHSCB must consider whether or not the application raises a question that it cannot consider by virtue of regulation 36(3).

(3) If the NHSCB decides that the application does raise a question that it cannot consider by virtue of regulation 36(3), it must take no further action in relation to that application other than informing the Committee making the application of that decision and its right of appeal against that decision under regulation 45(1)(b).