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Medicines Act 1981

Provisions relating to licences

55B: Licensing authority may require further information

You could also call this:

"The licensing authority can ask for more information when you apply to run a pharmacy."

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The licensing authority can ask you for more information when you apply for a licence to operate a pharmacy. They can ask for this information for several reasons, including to find out about the people involved in the pharmacy. They may also ask to check if you are a fit and proper person to run a pharmacy, as required by section 51(1)(b) and section 55A(1). If you do not give the licensing authority the information they ask for within 30 days, your application will lapse. The licensing authority can give you more time to provide the information if they want to. You must give them the information they need to process your application. The licensing authority needs this information to make a decision about your application. They use this information to assess your application and make sure you can run a pharmacy safely. You have to provide the information they ask for to get a licence.

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Part 3Provisions relating to licences

55BLicensing authority may require further information

  1. The licensing authority may, for 1 or more of the purposes set out in subsection (2), require an applicant for a licence to operate a pharmacy to supply information additional to that contained in the application.

  2. The purposes referred to in subsection (1) are—

  3. the determination of the nature of the interest held by any person in the pharmacy:
    1. the assessment required by section 51(1)(b) (which requires an applicant who is an individual to be a fit and proper person and an applicant who is a body corporate to be of good repute):
      1. the assessment required by section 55A(1).

        1. If the applicant fails to supply the information requested within 30 days of the date of the request, or within any further time allowed by the licensing authority, the application lapses.

        Notes
        • Section 55B: inserted, on , by section 17 of the Medicines Amendment Act 2003 (2003 No 50).