Part IVU.K. Pharmacies

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Pt. IV: Power to amend conferred (N.I.) (2.4.2001) by 2001 c. 3 (N.I.), s. 60, Sch. 4 para. 2(2); S.R. 2001/128, art. 2(4), Sch.

C2Pt. IV amendment to earlier affecting provision SI 1994/3144 reg. 9 (30.10.2005) by Medicines (Marketing Authorisations Etc.) Amendment Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2759), regs. 1(a), 2(12)

C3Pt. IV modified (E.W.S.) (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)(3)) by Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/289), art. 1(2)(3), Sch. 2 para. 13(7)

C4Pt. IV (except ss. 80-83): Power to amend conferred (15.3.2000) by 1999 c. 8, ss. 60(1)(2)(4), 67(1), Sch. 3 para. 2(3)(b); S.I. 2000/779, art. 2

Persons lawfully conducting retail pharmacy businessU.K.

[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 [F2at or from which] 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 [F3the requirement of subsection (4)] of this section is in charge of [F4the business carried on at or from] those premises, so far as concerns—

(a)the retail sale at [F5or from] those premises of medicinal products (whether they are on a general sale list or not), and

(b)the supply at [F6or from] 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,

[F7(b)the number of his registration under Part 4 of the Pharmacy Order 2010 or, in relation to Northern Ireland, under the Pharmacy (Northern Ireland) Order 1976, and]

(c)the fact that he is for the time being in charge of [F8the business carried on at or from] those premises.

(4)The responsible pharmacist must be—

(a)the person carrying on the business, or

[F9(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 maintained under article 19 of the Pharmacy Order 2010 (pharmacists other than visiting practitioners), or]

(c)another pharmacist.

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Textual Amendments

F1S. 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)