Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Regulations 1973 to allow the registrars of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland, who hold registers of pharmacy premises, to accept applications from existing pharmacy businesses for registration of additional pharmacy premises during an outbreak of pandemic influenza without the need to supply all the information usually required to accompany such applications – and to waive all or part of the registration fee.