Statutory Instruments
2006 No. 3264
medicines
The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 2006
Made
6th December 2006
Laid before Parliament
12th December 2006
Coming into force
1st January 2007
The Secretary of State and the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, acting jointly, make the following Regulations in exercise of powers conferred upon them by sections 75(1), 76(1) and (2) and 129(1) and (5) of the Medicines Act 1968( 1 ), or, in the case of the Department, the powers conferred by those provisions and now vested in it( 2 ).
In accordance with section 129(6) of that Act, they have consulted such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be affected by the Regulations.
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 2006 and shall come into force on 1st January 2007.
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 “£474” substitute “£492” and for “£93” (fee where premises are in Northern Ireland) substitute “£97”;
(b) in paragraph (2) (retention fee), for “£150” substitute “£156” and for “£130” (fee where premises are in Northern Ireland) substitute “£135”; and
(c) in paragraph (3) (additional sum by way of penalty), for “£474” substitute “£492” and for “£270” (sum where premises are in Northern Ireland) substitute “£281”.
Revocation
3.The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 2005( 4 ) are revoked.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
Andy Burnham
Minister of State,
Department of Health
6th December 2006
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
Andrew McCormick
Permanent Secretary,
Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
6th December 2006
1968 c.67 . The expression “the Ministers”, which is relevant to the powers being exercised in the making of these Regulations, is defined in section 1 of the Act as amended by Schedule 1 to S.I. 1969/388 , paragraph 1(1) of the Schedule to S.I. 1999/3142 and paragraph 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 8 to S.I. 2006/2407 ; section 76(6) of the Act was omitted by paragraph 40 of Part 1 of Schedule 8 to S.I. 2006/2407 . The word “prescribed” is defined in section 132(1) of the Act.
The powers were vested in the Ministers 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) and 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.) .
S.I. 1973/1822 ; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1980/1806 and S.I. 2005/3259 .