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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-pharmacies-applications-for-registration-and-fees-amendment-regulations-2008/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/2946",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-pharmacies-applications-for-registration-and-fees-amendment-regulations-2008",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations further amend the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Regulations 1973 as follows—\n(a) regulation 2(a) increases the fee for registration of premises at which a retail pharmacy business is, or is to be, carried on by 3.7% where the premises are in Great Britain;\n(b) regulation 2(b) increases the retention fee by 3.7% where the premises are in Great Britain; and\n(c) regulation 2(c) increases the penalty for failure to pay a retention fee (payable in the circumstances specified in section 76(2) of the Medicines Act 1968) by 3.7% where the premises are in Great Britain.\nA full impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of businesses and the voluntary sector is available from the Department of Health, Skipton House, 80 London Road, London SE1 6LH.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/2946/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:22:04.355663+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."
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