{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/branded-health-service-medicines-costs-amendment-regulations-2026/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/branded-health-service-medicines-costs-amendment-regulations-2026/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/614",
  "legislation_title": "The Branded Health Service Medicines (Costs) (Amendment) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/branded-health-service-medicines-costs-amendment-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Branded Health Service Medicines (Costs) Regulations 2018",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 3 (payment scheme) of the Branded Health Service Medicines (Costs) Regulations 2018 is amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph (1), for the table substitute the following table—\n“\nTable\nApplicable Period\nNewer presentation payment percentage\nOlder presentation payment percentage\n1st July 2026 to the end of 2026\n16.5%\n11%\n1st January 2027 to the end of 2027 and any subsequent calendar year\n16.5%\n10.9%\n”.\n(3) In paragraph (1AB)—\n(a) for “1st July 2025 and ending at the end of 2025”, substitute “1st July 2026 and ending at the end of 2026”; and\n(b) for “31.3% and not 23.4%”, substitute “8.7% and not 16.5%”.\n(4) In paragraph (1AC)—\n(a) for “1st July 2025 and ending at the end of 2025”, substitute “1st July 2026 and ending at the end of 2026”;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (a), for “1st January 2025 and ending at the end of 30 June 2025”, substitute “1st January 2026 and ending at the end of 30 June 2026”; and\n(c) in sub-paragraph (b), for “15.5%”, substitute “24.3%”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2018/345. Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2018/1255, 2020/258, 2022/593, 2023/239, 2023/1307, 2024/1277 and 2025/667."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/614/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:00:13.227023+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}