# The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1991

S.I. 1991/2605 · made 15 November 1991

These Regulations further amend the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Regulations 1973“the principal regulations”. They increase the fee for registration of premises at which a retail pharmacy business is, or is to be, carried on, the subsequent annual fees (retention fees) and the penalty (payable in circumstances specified in section 76(2) of the Medicines Act 1968) for failure to pay retention fees.

Made under: Medicines Act 1968 (Section 1, Section 75, Section 76, Section 129, Section 132)

## Introductory text

MEDICINES
Made 15th November 1991
Laid before Parliament 22nd November 1991
Coming into force 1st January 1992
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 1(1)(a), 75(1), 76(1), (2) and (6), 129(5) and 132(1) of the Medicines Act 1968 and vested in them and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consulting, pursuant to section 129(6) of that Act, such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by these Regulations, hereby make the following Regulations:

## 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations, which may be cited as the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1991, shall come into force on 1st January 1992.

## 2 Amendment of Regulation 3 of the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Regulations 1973

Regulation 3 of the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Regulations 1973 shall be amended as follows:–
(a) in paragraph (1) (fee for registration of premises), for “£104” there shall be substituted “£113” and for “£54” (fee where premises are in Northern Ireland) there shall be substituted “£58”;
(b) in paragraph (2) (retention fee), for “£67” there shall be substituted “£73” and for “£49” (fee where premises are in Northern Ireland) there shall be substituted “£53”; and
(c) in paragraph (3) (additional sum by way of penalty), for “£215” there shall be substituted “£233” and for “£154” (sum where premises are in Northern Ireland) there shall be substituted “£166”.

## 3 Revocation

The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees)Amendment Regulations 1990 are hereby revoked.

## Signature

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
Virginia Bottomley
Minister of State,
Department of Health
15th November 1991
David Hunt
Secretary of State for Wales
15th November 1991
Ian Lang
Secretary of State for Scotland
15th November 1991
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland this 15th day of November 1991.
L.S.
F. A. Elliott
Permanent Secretary

## 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”. They increase the fee for registration of premises at which a retail pharmacy business is, or is to be, carried on, the subsequent annual fees (retention fees) and the penalty (payable in circumstances specified in section 76(2) of the Medicines Act 1968) for failure to pay retention fees.
These Regulations also revoke the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1990 which increased the fees in the principal regulations, and whose effect is spent on the coming into force of these Regulations.

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