Pharmacy (Northern Ireland) Order 1976

Article 4(2).

SCHEDULE 2 N.I. THE COUNCIL OF THE SOCIETY

PART I N.I. CONSTITUTION OF THE COUNCIL

1.—(1) The Council shall consist of twenty-three members of whom— N.I.

(a) eighteen shall be members of the Society elected under paragraphs 2 and 9 as the representatives of pharmaceutical chemists;

(b) one shall be an associate to be so elected as the representative of the registered druggists (if any);

(c) two shall be nominated by the Queen's University of Belfast;

(d) one shall be nominated by such body as may be recognised by the Head of the Department as representative of the medical profession in Northern Ireland ( “the medical committee”);

(e) one shall be nominated by the Head of the Department to represent the wholesale drug trade in Northern Ireland.

(2) The President and the Vice-President shall be elected by the Council from the persons specified in sub-paragraph (1)( a) and ( b).

2.  The members of the Council to be elected under paragraph 1(1)( a) and ( b) shall be elected by the members and associates of the Society voting as one body. N.I.

3.  Subject to paragraph 1(1)( a) and ( b), every member or associate of the Society shall be qualified to be elected, and when elected to act, as a member of the Council. N.I.

4.  The proceedings of the Council shall not be invalidated by any vacancy in the membership of the Council or by any defect in the election of any of its members. N.I.

PART II N.I. SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS AS TO THE COUNCIL

Tenure of office and elections N.I.

5.—(1) The President and Vice-President of the Council shall respectively hold office for one year, but shall be eligible for re-election. N.I.

(2) In the case of any vacancy in the office of President or Vice-President caused by the holder of such office ceasing to be a member of the Council, or by his resignation of such office or incapacity to hold it, such vacancy shall be filled by the election of some member of the council elected from the persons specified in paragraph 1(1)( a) and ( b) to hold such office.

6.—(1) The members of the Council who are representatives of the Queen's University of Belfast, of the medical committee and of the wholesale drug trade in Northern Ireland shall hold office for three years from the date of their nomination. N.I.

(2) On the expiration of the period of three years mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) and of each subsequent period of three years, the said University and committee shall respectively nominate, to represent them for a further period of three years, the same number of persons as is provided in Part I, and the Head of the Department shall nominate for such further period one person to represent the said wholesale drug trade.

(3) The member of the Council who holds office as representative of the registered druggists shall cease to hold such office on the first Monday of October in every year; and the place of that member shall be filled by election on that date.

(4) A member of the Council who holds office as a representative of the pharmaceutical chemists shall hold such office for a period of three years; and, on the first Monday in October in each year, each such member whose term of office has then expired shall retire from office and the place of the members so retiring shall be filled by election on that date.

7.  Without prejudice to paragraphs 5(1) and 8(1), every member of the Council whose term of office has expired shall be eligible for re-nomination or, as the case may require, re-election. N.I.

8.—(1) If any extraordinary vacancy occurs in the Council (except in the case of a member to whom paragraph 6(1) applies), the Council shall, on a day to be appointed by the President (not being later than the second ordinary meeting after the vacancy has been signified to the President) elect to fill the vacancy— N.I.

(a) a member, if the vacancy occurs amongst those persons who as members were elected as representatives of pharmaceutical chemists; or

(b) an associate, if the vacancy occurs in the office of druggists' representative;

and every person so elected shall continue as a member of the Council until the time when the person in whose place he was chosen would regularly have gone out of office, and he shall then go out of office, but shall be capable of immediate re-election.

(2) If any extraordinary vacancy occurs among the members of the Council to whom paragraph 6(1) applies, the said University or committee, or the Head of the Department, as the case may require, shall nominate another representative to fill the vacancy for the unexpired portion of the term of office of the member in whose place such representative is nominated.

9.  Elections of members of the Council and of the President and Vice-President shall be held, and the voting and other proceedings in the case of a contest shall be conducted, in accordance with approved bye-laws made by the Council. N.I.

Meetings N.I.

10.  At a meeting of the Council, the President, or in his absence the Vice-President, shall act as chairman, and, if both the President and Vice-President are absent, one of the members of the Council present shall be elected chairman by the majority present. N.I.

11.  At all meetings of the Council, the questions considered shall be decided by a majority, and, in the case of an equal division, the chairman shall, in addition to his own vote, have a casting vote. N.I.

Quorum N.I.

12.  The quorum for a meeting of the Council shall be seven. N.I.