# The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 2009, Paragraph 1A: Applications relating to areas of a prescribed description


(1) For the purpose of section 27(4)(d) of the Act, a controlled locality is an area within a Health Board, which is remote or rural in character, and which is served by a dispensing doctor.
(2) The boundary of a controlled locality area is that of the dispensing doctor’s practice area under sub-paragraph (1) on the day before the day on which the application under regulation 5(2) is made.
(3) Upon identifying any areas which are a controlled locality in accordance with this paragraph, the Board must, as soon as reasonably practicable—
(a) give written notice to the dispensing doctor serving that controlled locality and to the person or body listed at paragraph 1 informing them of the identification of the controlled locality;
(b) delineate the boundaries of the controlled locality on a map; and
(c) record that controlled locality in its pharmaceutical care services plan.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2009/183/schedule/3/paragraph/1A (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-scotland-regulations-2009/schedule-3/paragraph-1A
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