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Statutory Instrument 2000 No. 3235

The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 2000

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS


2000 No. 3235


MEDICINES


The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 2000


 Made11th December 2000 
 Laid before Parliament11th December 2000 
 Coming into force1st January 2001 

As respects England, Scotland and Wales, the Secretary of State concerned with health in England and, as respects Northern Ireland, the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, acting jointly as the Health Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 75(1), 76(1), (2) and (6) and 129(5) of the Medicines Act 1968[1] or, as the case may be, those conferred by those provisions and now vested in them[2], and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consulting such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by these Regulations, pursuant to section 129(6) of that Act, hereby make the following Regulations: - 

Citation and commencement
    1.These Regulations may be cited as the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 1st January 2001.

Amendment of the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Regulations 1973
    2.In regulation 3 of the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Regulations 1973[3] (fees) - 

    (a) in paragraph (1) (fee for registration of premises), for "Ј139" substitute "Ј143" and for "Ј75" (fee where premises are in Northern Ireland) substitute "Ј77";

    (b) in paragraph (2) (retention fee), for "Ј89" substitute "Ј92" and for "Ј70" (fee where premises are in Northern Ireland) substitute "Ј72";

    (c) in paragraph (3) (additional sum by way of penalty), for "Ј286" substitute "Ј295" and for "Ј213" (sum where premises are in Northern Ireland) substitute "Ј219".

Revocation
    3.The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1999[4] are revoked.



Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health


Hunt
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health

5th December 2000


Bairbre de Brún
Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety

11th December 2000



EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)


These Regulations further amend the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Regulations 1973 ("the principal Regulations") as follows - 

    (a) regulation 2(a) increases the fees for registration of premises at which a retail pharmacy business is, or is to be, carried on from Ј139 to Ј143 (where the premises are in Great Britain) and from Ј75 to Ј77 (where the premises are in Northern Ireland);

    (b) regulation 2(b) increases subsequent annual fees (retention fees) from Ј89 to Ј92 (where the premises are in Great Britain) and from Ј70 to Ј72 (where the premises are in Northern Ireland);

    (c) regulation 2(c) increases the penalty for failure to pay retention fees (payable in the circumstances specified in section 76(2) of the Medicines Act 1968) from Ј286 to Ј295 (where the premises are in Great Britain) and from Ј213 to Ј219 (where the premises are in Northern Ireland).

These Regulations also revoke the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1999, which increased the fees in the principal Regulations, the effect of which is spent on the coming into force of these Regulations.


Notes:

[1] 1968 c. 67; the expression "the Health Ministers" is defined in section 1(1)(a) of that Act, as amended by article 2(2) of, and Schedule 1 to, S.I. 1969/388, and by article 5 of, and paragraph 1(1) of the Schedule to, S.I. 1999/3142; the word "prescribed" is defined in section 132(1) of that Act.back

[2] In the case of the Secretary of State concerned with health in England, by virtue of article 2(2) of, and Schedule 1 to, S.I. 1969/388, and by articles 2(1) and 5 of, and paragraph 1(1) of the Schedule to, S.I. 1999/3142; and in the case of the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, by virtue of section 95(5) of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 12 to, the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (c. 47).back

[3] S.I. 1973/1822, amended by S.I. 1980/1806, 1996/3054, 1997/2876, 1998/3085 and 1999/3295.back

[4] S.I. 1999/3295.back



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