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

Determinations of reserved locations: supplemental matters U.K.

43.—(1) Once the NHSCB has determined whether or not an area is a reserved location under regulation 41(2) or 42(1), it must—

(a) give notice of the determination to the person in relation to whose pharmacy premises or proposed pharmacy premises the determination relates, and to the persons notified in accordance with regulation 41(4) or 42(2); and

(b) as part of that notice, inform them of—

(i) its determination and the reasons for it, and

(ii) in the case of any person notified who is a Local Pharmaceutical Committee, a Local Medical Committee, a provider of primary medical services, an LPS chemist or a person on a pharmaceutical or dispensing doctors list, their right of appeal under regulation 45(1)(c) or (d).

(2) Where—

(a) part of the area of what would otherwise be determined under regulation 41(2) or 42(1) to be a reserved location is within 1.6 kilometres of the location of other pharmacy premises (that is, pharmacy premises other than the pharmacy premises at the relevant location); and

(b) there is no reserved location arising out of the presence of those other pharmacy premises,

that part of that area is not to be part of the reserved location.

(3) A reserved location (as opposed to the determination of a reserved location) takes effect once the pharmacy premises to which it relates are listed in the pharmaceutical list.

(4) Once a reserved location takes effect, the NHSCB must—

(a) delineate precisely the boundary of the reserved location on a map;

(b) publish that map; and

(c) make that map available as soon as is practicable to any HWB that has all or part of that reserved location in its area.