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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-and-pharmaceutical-services-amendment-no-2-regulations-1987/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/401",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-and-pharmaceutical-services-amendment-no-2-regulations-1987",
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  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 1974 (“the principal Regulations”) regulating the terms upon which chemists provide pharmaceutical services under the National Health Service Act 1977.\nRegulation 2 substitutes a new regulation 26 of the principal Regulations, which requires pharmaceutical lists to be kept by the Family Practitioner Committee (“the Committee”), and for applications to be made to the Committee for inclusion in a list and for additional premises or relocation of premises; unless pharmaceutical services are already provided in those premises or the move is minor, the application is to be granted only if the Committee is satisfied that it is necessary or desirable to grant it in order to secure in the neighbourhood adequate provision of such services. Further provision as to applications is made in a new Schedule 4C to the principal Regulations, and in particular for a sub-committee to be appointed which will be responsible for determining applications; provision is made for appeals against decisions to an Appeal Panel. Regulation 2 makes consequential amendment to the principal Regulations and the terms of service for chemists, substitutes new prescribed forms of application in such cases and introduces a new notice of intention to commence provision of services. Regulation 2 also makes provision for the supply of information by chemists who are included in the pharmaceutical list and for an appeal to the Committee against decisions made under hours of opening schemes. Transitional provisions and consequential revocations are made in regulation 3.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/401/note",
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  "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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