Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2004 No. 236

PHARMACY

Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

Made

20th May 2004

Coming into operation

14th June 2004

The Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 5 of the Pharmacy (Northern Ireland) Order 1976(1) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, and with the approval of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety(2) hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 14th June 2004.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994(3).

Amendment of the principal Regulations

2.  In regulation 9 of the principal Regulations (Qualifications for registration), after paragraph (2), add the following paragraph –

“(3) Where a person –

(a) has been registered as a pharmaceutical chemist for a period of two years or more;

(b) gives to the registrar a certificate stating that he has satisfactorily completed a training programme accredited by the Society for the annotation “SP” (Supplementary Prescriber) to be recorded against his name; and

(c) pays a fee of £25 to the Society,

he shall be entitled to have that annotation recorded against his name by the registrar in that register.”.

Sealed with the Common Seal of the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland on 20th May 2004 in the presence of

L.S.

K. McClelland

President

S. Maltby

Chief Executive, Secretary and Registrar

The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety hereby approves the foregoing Regulations.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on 20th May 2004.

L.S.

D. C. Gowdy

Permanent Secretary

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations amend the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994 (S.R. 1994 No. 202) (“the principal Regulations”) to provide for the register of pharmaceutical chemists to indicate pharmacists who have particular qualifications, specialist areas of practice and status.

Regulation 9 of the principal Regulations is amended so that a person is entitled to have an annotation “SP” (Supplementary Prescriber) recorded against his name in the register of pharmaceutical chemists if he satisfies specified requirements and pays a fee of £25 to the Society.

(1)

S.I. 1976/1213 (N.I. 22), as amended by S.R. 1987 No. 457 and S.R. 2004 No. 78

(2)

S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1) Article 3(6)

(3)

S.R. 1994 No. 202, as amended by S.R. 1996 No. 187, S.R. 1999 No. 217, S.R. 2002 No. 206 and S.R. 2003 No. 356