Pharmaceutical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

Payments to suspended chemists

10.—(1) The Board shall make payments to any chemist who is suspended by direction of the Tribunal in accordance with a determination made by the Department in relation to such payments.

(2) The Department shall make a determination in accordance with paragraph (1) after consultation with such organisation which is, in the opinion of the Department, representative of the general body of chemists, and that determination shall be published with the Drug Tariff.

(3) The determination may be amended from time to time by the Department, after consultation with the organisation referred to in paragraph (2), and any amendments shall also be published with the Drug Tariff.

(4) A determination made by the Department by virtue of paragraph (1)—

(a) shall be such as to secure that, as far as reasonably practicable, and after making adjustments for any reduction in expenses, the suspended chemist receives payments at a rate corresponding to his remuneration under the Drug Tariff (but excluding any payments made by virtue of regulation 9(1)(1) and (i)) during the 12 months ending with the direction for suspension by the Tribunal;

(b) may include provision that payments in accordance with the determination are not to exceed a specified amount in any specified period;

(c) in a case to which paragraph 8B(3) of Schedule 11 to the Order(1) applies, shall provide for the payments to be reduced to take account of any payments which the suspended chemist receives for providing pharmaceutical services other than as a principal.

(1)

Paragraph 8B(3) of Schedule 11 is inserted by Article 4 of S.I. 1995/2704 (N.I. 24)