# The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Wales) Regulations 2020, Regulation 22: Applications involving a change of ownership

Extent: E+W

(1) A Local Health Board must grant an application made by a person under regulation 15(1)(a), (b)(i) or (ii) (applications to be included in or make amendment to a pharmaceutical list) who intends to provide pharmaceutical services at premises from which those services are, at the time of the application, provided by another person who is included in a pharmaceutical list maintained by the Local Health Board under regulation 10 (preparation and maintenance of pharmaceutical lists) if the Local Health Board is satisfied that—
(a) the premises are already included in a pharmaceutical list maintained by the Local Health Board,
(b) the same pharmaceutical services will continue to be provided from the premises, and
(c) the provision of pharmaceutical services will not be interrupted (except for such period as the Local Health Board may for good cause allow).
(2) In determining an application under this regulation which has been made under regulation 15(1)(a) (except where the application has been made by a person who has been granted preliminary consent under regulation 18 which is valid in accordance with regulation 18(5)), or under regulation 18 where the applicant is not already included in that Local Health Board’s pharmaceutical list a Local Health Board may—
(a) defer consideration of the application on fitness grounds under regulation 36 (deferral of applications on fitness grounds),
(b) refuse the application on fitness grounds under regulation 37 (refusal of applications on fitness grounds), or
(c) impose conditions on the grant of the application under regulation 38 (conditional inclusion on fitness grounds).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2020/1073/regulation/22 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-wales-regulations-2020/regulation-22
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