These Regulations may be cited as the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland (Appointments and Procedure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 and shall come into operation on 1st October 2012.

In these Regulations—

• “final outcome”, in relation to any proceedings where there are rights of appeal, means the outcome of the proceedings—

  1. a

     once the period for bringing an appeal has expired without an appeal being brought; or

  2. b

     if an appeal is brought in accordance with those rights, once those rights have been exhausted;

• “licensing body” means any body, other than the Society, anywhere in the world that licenses or regulates any profession;

• “member” means a registered person or a lay member and includes the President and Vice-President;

• “the Order” means the Pharmacy (Northern Ireland) Order 1976;

• “President” means the President of the Council;

• “public body” means a body established by a statutory provision;

• “the register” means the register mentioned in Article 6 (1)(a) of the Order except in regulation 2 (j);

• “spent conviction” means—

  1. a

     in relation to a conviction by a court in Northern Ireland, a conviction that is a spent conviction for the purposes of the Rehabilitation of Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 19783; or

  2. b

     in relation to a conviction by a court in Great Britain, a conviction that is a spent conviction for the purposes of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 19744; and

• “Vice-President” means Vice-President of the Council.