5. In regulation 18 of the principal Regulations(1) (unforeseen benefits applications: additional matters to which the NHSCB must have regard), in paragraph (2), after sub-paragraph (f) insert—
“(g)whether it is satisfied that the application presupposes that a gap in pharmaceutical services provision has been or is to be created—
(i)by the removal of chemist premises from a pharmaceutical list as a consequence of the grant of a consolidation application, and
(ii)since the last revision of the relevant HWB’s pharmaceutical needs assessment other than by way of a supplementary statement.”.
Amended by S.I. 2014/417.