{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-charges-and-prescribing-amendment-regulations-2016/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/1077",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services, Charges and Prescribing) (Amendment) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-charges-and-prescribing-amendment-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 6 of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 6 of the principal Regulations (subsequent assessments), after paragraph (3) insert—\n“(4) Where chemist premises are removed from a pharmaceutical list as a consequence of the grant of a consolidation application, if in the opinion of the relevant HWB the removal does not create a gap in pharmaceutical services provision that could be met by a routine application—\n(a) to meet a current or future need for pharmaceutical services; or\n(b) to secure improvements, or better access, to pharmaceutical services,\nthe relevant HWB must publish a supplementary statement explaining that, in its view, the removal does not create such a gap, and any such statement becomes part of its pharmaceutical needs assessment.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1077/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:18:24.505346+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."
}