# The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Wales) Regulations 2020, Paragraph 1: General principles

Extent: E+W

(1) Except in so far as these Regulations provide to the contrary, a Local Health Board may determine an application submitted to it in such manner as it thinks fit.
(2) A Local Health Board must follow the procedure in regulation 15(4) in respect of an application submitted to it which does not contain all of the information that an applicant is required to provide in accordance with Schedule 2.
(3) A Local Health Board may if it thinks fit consider two or more applications together and in relation to each other but where it intends to do so it must give notice of that intention in writing to—
(a) the respective applicants, and
(b) where the application is one in respect of which notice must be given under paragraph 8, any other person that must be given notice of that application.
(4) Where in accordance with sub-paragraph (3) a Local Health Board considers two or more applications to which regulation 16(2) applies together and in relation to each other, it may refuse an application (notwithstanding the fact that it would if determining the application in isolation grant it) where the number of applications is such, or the circumstances in which they are made are such, that to grant all of them or more than one of them, would prejudice the proper provision of primary medical services, pharmaceutical services or dispensing services in the controlled locality within which the premises specified in the application are situated.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2020/1073/schedule/3/paragraph/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-wales-regulations-2020/schedule-3/paragraph-1
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