Pharmacy Act 1954 (repealed)

4 Qualification by degree, diploma, etc. for registration.F6 E+W+S

(1) [F1 Subject to subsection (4) below, byelaws] may provide that any person who satisfies such conditions as to character and otherwise as are prescribed by the byelaws and either holds or has held a degree granted in respect of pharmacy by any university in the United Kingdom or a diploma granted in respect of pharmacy in any place outside the United Kingdom or has passed the examinations necessary for obtaining such a diploma shall be qualified to have his name registered—

(a) without his qualifying to have his name registered in accordance with the requirements of the last foregoing section and of byelaws made thereunder; or

(b) upon his so qualifying in accordance with those requirements relaxed to the prescribed extent.

(2) Byelaws may provide that any person who is—

(a) a qualified military dispenser; or

(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2

(c) registered as a pharmaceutical chemist in Northern Ireland,

and who satisfies the Council that he has sufficient skill and knowledge to practise as a pharmaceutical chemist shall be qualified to have his name registered without his qualifying as mentioned in paragraph (a) of the last foregoing subsection.

[F3 (3) The references in subsection (1) above to a diploma granted in respect of pharmacy in any place outside the United Kingdom shall not include references to [F4 an appropriate European diploma by which a person is qualified by virtue of section 4A] of this Act to have his name registered.]

[F5 (4) Byelaws under subsection (1) above shall provide that in relation to a national of an EEA State exercising an enforceable Community right, or a person of the description mentioned in section 4A(1A), who—

(a) holds or has held a diploma granted in respect of pharmacy in any place outside the United Kingdom (other than an appropriate European diploma); or

(b) has passed the examinations necessary for obtaining such a diploma,

the registrar, or on appeal the Council, shall take the matters mentioned in subsection (5) below into account when deciding whether he is qualified to have his name registered under subsection (1) above.

(5) The matters are—

(a) if the diploma, or the passing of the examinations necessary for obtaining it, has been accepted by another EEA State as qualifying him to practise pharmacy in that State, that fact; and

(b) all his qualifications, or knowledge or experience, in pharmacy, wherever acquired, which are relevant to the question of whether his name should be registered.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 4(1) substituted (31.12.2003) by The European Qualifications (Health Care Professions) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/3148), regs. 1(1)(c), 8(3)(a)

F2 S. 4(2)(b) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. V

F3 S. 4(3) inserted by S.I. 1987/2202, art. 2(3)

F4 Words in s. 4(3) substituted (31.12.2003) by The European Qualifications (Health Care Professions) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/3148), regs. 1(1)(c), 8(3)(b)

F5 S. 4(4)-(5) added (31.12.2003) by The European Qualifications (Health Care Professions) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/3148), regs. 1(1)(c), 8(3)(c)

Textual Amendments applied to the whole legislation

F6 Act: power to modify conferred (15.3.2000) by 1999 c. 8, s. 60(1)(2)(a)(4), Sch. 3; S.I. 2000/779, art. 2(1)