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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Health Service Medicines (Price Control Appeals) Amendment Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 17th April 2000.
(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Health Service Medicines (Price Control Appeals) Regulations 2000.
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(1) In the following provisions of the principal Regulations for the words “disputed action” in each place in which they occur there shall be substituted the words “enforcement decision”—
(a) regulation 5(2)(b) (notice of appeal);
(b) regulation 14 (further documents); and
(c) regulation 29(2)(b) (evidence).
(2) In regulation 27(4) (procedure at the hearing) for the reference “regulation 21(1)(b)” there shall be substituted the reference “regulation 22(1)(b)”.
(3) For paragraph (4) of regulation 30 (summoning or citing of witness) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—“
(4) Where a person summoned under paragraph (1)—
(a) refuses or neglects, without sufficient cause, to appear or to produce any documents required by the summons to be produced, or
(b) having been so summoned, refuses to be sworn or to given evidence,
a judge may, on the application of the chairman, exercise his powers under section 55 of the County Court Act 1984. or, in relation to matters arising in Northern Ireland, Article 54 of the County Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1980. in relation to that person as though the person had been summoned in pursuance of the civil procedure rules as a witness in a county court.”.
Alan Milburn
One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State
24th March 2000