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Statutory Instrument 2002 No. 3024

The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 2002

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS


2002 No. 3024


MEDICINES


The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 2002


 Made5th December 2002 
 Laid before Parliament6th December 2002 
 Coming into force1st January 2003 

As respects England, Scotland and Wales, the Secretary of State concerned with health in England and, as respects Northern Ireland, the Department 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 2002 and shall come into force on 1st January 2003.

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 "Ј150" substitute "Ј156" and for "Ј80" (fee where premises are in Northern Ireland) substitute "Ј83";

    (b) in paragraph (2) (retention fee), for "Ј97" substitute "Ј101" and for "Ј82" (fee where premises are in Northern Ireland) substitute "Ј92";

    (c) in paragraph (3) (additional sum by way of penalty), for "Ј310" substitute "Ј323" and for "Ј230" (sum where premises are in Northern Ireland) substitute "Ј240".

Revocation
    3.The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 2001[4] are hereby revoked.



Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health


David Lammy
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Health

3rd December 2002



Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety

L.S.


D. C. Gowdy
Permanent Secretary, Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety

5th December 2002



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 Ј150 to Ј156 (where the premises are in Great Britain) and from Ј80 to Ј83 (where the premises are in Northern Ireland);

    (b) regulation 2(b) increases subsequent annual fees (retention fees) from Ј97 to Ј101 (where the premises are in Great Britain) and from Ј82 to Ј92 (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 Ј310 to Ј323 (where the premises are in Great Britain) and from Ј230 to Ј240 (where the premises are in Northern Ireland).

These Regulations also revoke the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 2001, 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 Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, the powers vested in the Minister in charge of that Department by virtue of section 95(5) of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 12 to, the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (c.47) may now be exercised by the Department by virtue of section 1(8) of, and paragraph 4(1)(b) of the Schedule to, the Northern Ireland Act 2000 (c.1); the Department was renamed by virtue of Article 3(6) of S.I. 1999/283 (N.I.1.).back

[3] S.I. 1973/1822; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1980/1806, 2000/3235 and 2001/3964.back

[4] S.I. 2000/3964.back



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