{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-regulations-1992/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-regulations-1992/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/662",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Notification of applications",
  "text": "(1) Where, on receiving an application under regulation 4(2), an FHSA is satisfied that the application is one to which regulation 4(4) applies, it shall, as soon as is practicable, give notice in writing, of the application, to—\n(a) the Local Pharmaceutical Committee;\n(b) the Local Medical Committee;\n(c) any person who is included in a pharmaceutical list and whose interests might, in the opinion of the FHSA, be significantly affected if the application were granted;\n(d) any FHSA any part of whose locality is within two kilometres of the premises; and\n(e) any Community Health Council serving the locality of the FHSA or of any other FHSA notified under sub-paragraph (d),\nand any person so notified may, within 30 days from the date on which the notification was sent, make representations in writing to the FHSA.\n(2) An FHSA which is notified under paragraph (1)(d) shall, as soon as is practicable, give notice in writing, of the application, to—\n(a) the Local Pharmaceutical Committee for its locality;\n(b) the Local Medical Committee for its locality; and\n(c) any person whose name is included in a pharmaceutical list and whose interests might, in the opinion of the FHSA, be significantly affected if the application were granted,\nand any person so notified may, within 30 days from the date on which the notification was sent, make representations in writing to the FHSA to which the application was made.\n(3) Any notice given under paragraph (1) or (2) shall include a notification of the right to make representations in accordance with that paragraph.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/922",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Amendment) Regulations 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/2469",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (Supplementary, Consequential etc. Provisions) Regulations 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "am (E)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/888",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Local Pharmaceutical Services and Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/2861",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Local Pharmaceutical Services Etc.) Regulations 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/2861",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Local Pharmaceutical Services Etc.) Regulations 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/662/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:25:33.027590+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."
}