Statutory Instruments
2004 No. 3197
MEDICINES
The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 2004
Made
3rd December 2004
Laid before Parliament
10th December 2004
Coming into force
1st January 2005
As respects England, Scotland and Wales, the Secretary of State concerned with health in England and, as respects Northern Ireland, the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, acting jointly as the Health Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 75(1), 76(1), (2) and (6) and 129(5) of the Medicines Act 1968( 1 ) or, as the case may be, those powers conferred by those provisions and now vested in them( 2 ), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consulting such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by these Regulations, pursuant to section 129(6) of that Act, hereby make the following Regulations:—
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 2004 and shall come into force on 1st January 2005.
Amendment of the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Regulations 1973
2. In regulation 3 of the Medicines (Pharmacies) Applications for Registration and Fees) Regulations 1973( 3 ) (fees)—
(a) in paragraph (1) (fee for registration of premises), for “£163” substitute “£460” and for “£86” (fee where premises are in Northern Ireland) substitute “£90”;
(b) in paragraph (2) (retention fee), for “£125” substitute “£137” and for “£112” (fee where premises are in Northern Ireland) substitute “£118”;
(c) in paragraph (3) (additional sum by way of penalty), for “£336” substitute “£460” and for “£250” (sum where premises are in Northern Ireland) substitute “£262”.
Revocation
3.The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applicants for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 2003( 4 ) are revoked.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
Rosie Winterton
Minister of State,
Department of Health
2nd December 2004
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
D. C. Gowdy
Permanent Secretary,
Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
3rd December 2004
1968 (c. 67) ; the expression “the Health Ministers” is defined in section 1(1)(a) of that Act, as amended by article 2(2) of, and Schedule 1 to S.I. 1969/288 , and by article 5 of, and paragraph 1(1) of the Schedule to, S.I. 1999/3142 ; the word “prescribed” is defined in section 132(1) of that Act.
In the case of the Secretary of State concerned with health in England, by virtue of article 2(2) of, and Schedule 1 to, S.I. 1969/388 , and by articles 2(1) and 5 of, and paragraph 1(1) of the Schedule to, S.I. 1999/3142 ; and in the case of Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, the powers vested in the Minister in charge of that Department by virtue of section 95(5) of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 12 to, the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (c. 47) may now be exercised by the Department by virtue of section 1(8) of, and paragraph 4(1)(b) of the Schedule to, the Northern Ireland Act 2000 (c. 1) ; the Department was renamed by virtue of Article 3(6) of S.I. 1999/283 (N.I.1.) .