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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-regulations-1992/regulation-6",
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  "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/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Determination of applications",
  "text": "(1) In considering any application to which regulation 4(4) applies, an FHSA shall have regard in particular to—\n(a) whether or not any of the pharmaceutical services specified in the application are already provided by persons included in a pharmaceutical list in the neighbourhood in which the premises named in the application are located;\n(b) any information available to the FHSA which, in its opinion, is relevant to the consideration of the application; and\n(c) any representations received by the FHSA under regulation 5(1) or (2).\n(2) The FHSA may determine an application in such manner as it thinks fit and may, if it considers that oral representations are unnecessary, determine the application without hearing any oral representations.\n(3) In any case where the FHSA decides to hear oral representations, it shall give the applicant and any person from whom it has received representations under regulation 5(1) or (2) not less than 14 days notice of the time and place at which the oral representations are to be heard.\n(4) The applicant and any person mentioned in paragraph (3) may be assisted at any such hearing in the presentation of his representations by some other person, but no person shall be entitled to be heard in the capacity of counsel or solicitor.\n(5) The procedure by which representations are heard shall be such as the FHSA may determine.\n(6) No person who provides or assists in providing general medical services or pharmaceutical services under Part II of the Act shall take part in any decision under this regulation.\n(7) The FHSA may, where it thinks fit, consider two or more applications together in relation to each other, and, where it proposes to do so, it shall give notice in writing to the applicants and any persons to whom copies of the application were sent under regulation 5(1).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/681",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Amendment Regulations 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/922",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Amendment) Regulations 2004"
    },
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      "affecting": "wsi/2004/1021",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Amendment) (Wales) 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": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/2861",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Local Pharmaceutical Services Etc.) Regulations 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/2861",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Local Pharmaceutical Services Etc.) Regulations 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "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/6",
    "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."
}