{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-charges-and-prescribing-amendment-regulations-2016/regulation-5",
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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/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 18 of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 18 of the principal Regulations (unforeseen benefits applications: additional matters to which the NHSCB must have regard), in paragraph (2), after sub-paragraph (f) insert—\n“(g) whether it is satisfied that the application presupposes that a gap in pharmaceutical services provision has been or is to be created—\n(i) by the removal of chemist premises from a pharmaceutical list as a consequence of the grant of a consolidation application, and\n(ii) since the last revision of the relevant HWB’s pharmaceutical needs assessment other than by way of a supplementary statement.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Amended by S.I. 2014/417."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1077/regulation/5",
    "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."
}