The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Wales) Regulations 2013

Investigations, proceedings and convictions E+W

23.  An applicant must supply in writing information as to whether he or she, or where the applicant is a body corporate, any of its directors or its superintendent—

(a) has any criminal convictions in the United Kingdom;

(b) has been bound over following a criminal conviction in the United Kingdom;

(c) has accepted a police caution in the United Kingdom;

(d) has in summary proceedings in Scotland in respect of an offence, been the subject of an order discharging him absolutely (without proceeding to conviction);

(e) has accepted a conditional offer under section 302 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (fixed penalty: conditional offer by procurator fiscal) or agreed to pay a penalty under section 115A of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (penalty as alternative to prosecution);

(f) has been convicted elsewhere of an offence, or what would constitute a criminal offence if committed in England and Wales, or is subject to a penalty which would be the equivalent of being bound over or cautioned;

(g) is currently the subject of any proceedings which might lead to such a conviction, which have not yet been notified to the Local Health Board;

(h) has been subject to any investigation into his or her professional conduct by any licensing, regulatory or other body, where the outcome was adverse;

(i) is currently subject to any investigation into his or her professional conduct by any licensing, regulatory or other body;

(j) is or has been where the outcome was adverse, the subject of any investigation into his professional conduct in respect of any current or previous employment;

(k) is the subject of any investigation by another Local Health Board or equivalent body, which might lead to his removal from any relevant list;

(l) is, or has been where the outcome was adverse, the subject of any investigation by the NHS Business Services Authority(1) in relation to fraud;

(m) has been removed or contingently removed from, refused admission to, or conditionally included in, any relevant list kept by another Local Health Board or equivalent body, or has been or is currently suspended from such a list, on fitness grounds, and if so, why and the name of that Local Health Board or equivalent body; or

(n) is, or ever has been, subject to a national disqualification,

and, if so, the applicant must give details including approximate dates, or where any investigation or proceedings were or are to be brought, the nature of that investigation or proceedings, and any outcome.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 1 para. 23 in force at 10.5.2013, see reg. 1(2)

(1)

Established by the NHS Business Services Authority (Awdurod Gwasanaethau Busnes y GIG) (Establishment and Constitution) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2414).