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These Regulations, which may be cited as the Medicines (Fees) Amendment Regulations 1987, amend the Medicines (Fees) Regulations 1978 (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Regulations”) and shall come into force on 1st September 1987.
2 
After regulation 4 of the principal Regulations there is inserted the following regulation—“
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(1) Subject to the following provisions of this regulation a capital fee of £75 shall be payable by the applicant in connection with each application for the variation of one or more of the provisions of a product licence granted under Part II of the Act unless such application is made at the specific invitation of the licensing authority.
(2) The provisions of paragraph (1) shall not apply in the case of an application for variation which is made by an authority or board constituted under the National Health Service Act 1977, the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 or the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972”.
3 
In regulation 14 of the principal Regulations (time for payment of capital fees) there is inserted after the word “grant” the words “,or as the case may be, the variation,”.
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(1) Table A of Part I of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (types and levels of fees), is amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.
(2) For each entry in Column 2 (Capital Fees), of the sum “£2,500” there is substituted the sum “£4,000”.
(3) For each entry in Column 2 of the sum “£150” there is substituted the sum “£250”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Services.
Tony Newton
Minister of State,
Department of Health and Social Security
22nd July 1987Wyn Roberts
Minister of State for Wales
10th August 1987Ian Lang
Minister of State, Scottish Office
10th August 1987In Witness whereof the official seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 10th August 1987.
John MacGregor
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Sealed with the official seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland this 6th day of August 1987.
G. Buchanan
Under Secretary
Sealed with the official seal of the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland this 6th day of August 1987.
W. H. Jack
Permanent Secretary
We consent,
Peter Lloyd
Michael Neubert
Two of Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
10th August 1987