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

Premises approval: relocations of practice premises which are not significant before outline consent takes effect U.K.

54.—(1) If outline consent has been granted but has not yet taken effect, before the provisional date the person or partnership (D) to whom it was granted may apply to the NHSCB to change the premises from which D wishes to dispense to other premises in the area of the relevant HWB.

(2) The NHSCB may agree to the change (and so, where appropriate, grant premises approval to the new premises) if it is satisfied that the relocation is of the type provided for in regulation 55(2).

(3) Where the NHSCB agrees to a change pursuant to paragraph (2), the premises approval takes effect when the related outline consent takes effect or, if later, on the date on which the change is agreed by the NHSCB.

(4) The NHSCB must notify its decision in relation to the application under paragraph (1) to the persons to whom it notified the application who made representations in relation to it under regulation 52(4), and it must include with the notification of its decision an explanation of—

(a) the reasons for the decision; and

(b) if the person notified is a person with rights of appeal under regulation 63(1)(c) or (d), an explanation of how those rights may be exercised.