Medicines Act 1968

[F1 70 Business carried on by individual pharmacist or by partners. U.K.

(1) The conditions referred to in section 69(1)(a) of this Act are that subsections (2) and (3) of this section are both satisfied as respects each of the premises where the retail pharmacy business is carried on and medicinal products, other than medicinal products on a general sale list, are sold by retail.

(2) This subsection is satisfied if a responsible pharmacist who satisfies the requirements of subsections (4) and (5) of this section is in charge of the business at those premises, so far as concerns—

(a) the retail sale at those premises of medicinal products (whether they are on a general sale list or not), and

(b) the supply at those premises of such products in circumstances corresponding to retail sale.

(3) This subsection is satisfied if a notice is conspicuously displayed at those premises stating—

(a) the name of the responsible pharmacist for the time being,

(b) the number of his registration under the [F2 Part 2 of the Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Order 2007] or (in relation to Northern Ireland) the Pharmacy (Northern Ireland) Order 1976, and

(c) the fact that he is for the time being in charge of the business at those premises.

(4) The responsible pharmacist must be—

(a) the person carrying on the business, or

(b) if the business is carried on by a partnership, one of the partners or, in Scotland, one of the partners who is a person registered in Part 1 of the Register of Pharmacists maintained under article 10(1) of the Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Order 2007, or

(c) another pharmacist.

(5) In relation to premises in Great Britain that have been registered pharmacies for less than three years, the responsible pharmacist may not be a person who is a pharmacist by virtue of [F3 a qualification in pharmacy awarded in a relevant European State].]

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 70 substituted (1.10.2009) by Health Act 2006 (c. 28), ss. 27(1), 83(7) (as amended by S.I. 2007/3101, regs. 1(2), 103(a)); S.I. 2008/2714, art. 2(a)

F2 Words in s. 70(3)(b) substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)(3)) by The Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/289), art. 1(2)(3), Sch. 1 para. 2(6)(a)

F3 Words in s. 70(5) substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)(3)) by The Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/289), art. 1(2)(3), Sch. 1 para. 2(6)(b)