Statutory Instrument 1988 No. 2113

The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1988

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1988 No. 2113

MEDICINES

The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1988

The Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health in England, in Wales and in Scotland and the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland, acting jointly as the Health Ministers in exercise of powers conferred by sections 75(1), 76(1) and (6), 129(2) and (5) and 132(1) of the Medicines Act 1968^[1] 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, which may be cited as the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1988, shall come into force on 1st January 1989.

Amendment of Regulation 3 of the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Regulations 1973
    2.    Regulation 3 of the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Regulations 1973^[3] shall be amended as follows:—
 (a) in paragraph (1) (fee for registration of premises), for "£84" there shall be substituted "£88" and for "£43" there shall be substituted "£45" ; and
 (b) in paragraph (2) (retention fee), for "£53" there shall be substituted "£56" and for "£38" there shall be substituted "£40" .

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

D. Mellor

Minister of State, Department of Health

23rd November 1988

Peter Walker

Secretary of State for Wales

25th November 1988

Malcolm Rifkind

Secretary of State for Scotland

29th November 1988
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland this
2nd day of December 1988.


F. A. Elliot

Permanent Secretary

These Regulations further amend the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Regulations 1973. They increase the fees for registration of premises at which a retail pharmacy business is or is to be carried on and the subsequent annual fees (retention fees).

[1] 1968 c. 67; section 132(1) is cited for the definition of "prescribed" . back

[2] The regulation making powers in sections 75 and 76 of the Medicines Act 1968 are vested, by section 76(6) in "the Health Ministers" , who are defined by section 1(1)(a) as amended by article 2(2) of, and Schedle 1 to, the Transfer of Functions (Wales) Order 1969 (S.I. 1969/388) as the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health in England, in Wales and in Scotland and the Minister of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland; but the powers of the latter are now vested in the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland by section 40 of, and Schedule 5 to, the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), and section 1(3) of, and paragraph 2(1) of Schedule 1 to, the Northern Ireland Act 1974 (c. 28). back

[3] S.I. 1973/1822; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1980/1806, and 1987/2099. back