The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Wales) Regulations 2013

Lapse of outline consent and premises approval

26.—(1) Outline consent will cease to have effect—

(a) where the provision of dispensing services has not commenced within twelve months of outline consent or premises approval taking effect under regulation 25 (taking effect of outline consent and premises approval);

(b) where more than twelve months have elapsed since the last provision of dispensing services;

(c) where there is a practice amalgamation and following the amalgamation there are no practice premises which have premises approval; or

(d) where outline consent has lapsed under regulation 25.

(2) Premises approval will cease to have effect in relation to—

(a) listed premises which have permanently ceased to be practice premises;

(b) listed premises which have not been used for dispensing by any doctor authorised to dispense from those premises for six months or such longer period as the Local Health Board may for good cause allow;

(c) listed premises where the doctor under whose name those premises are listed in the dispensing doctors list has notified the Local Health Board that all the doctors who have authority to dispense from those premises have ceased to do so;

(d) listed premises where there is no doctor with premises approval in respect of them remaining on the dispensing doctor list; or

(e) listed premises which were granted premises approval under regulation 29(3), where no practice amalgamation takes place within the period specified in regulation 29(7).

(3) Premises approval will cease to have effect where the related outline consent ceases to have effect.