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(1)Except as may be provided for by or under regulations, no arrangements may be made by a Primary Care Trust with a medical practitioner or dental practitioner under which he is required or agrees to provide pharmaceutical services to any person to whom he is rendering primary medical services or primary dental services.
(2)Except as may be provided for by or under regulations, no arrangements for the dispensing of medicines may be made under this Chapter with persons other than persons who—
(a)are registered pharmacists or persons lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business in accordance with section 69 of the Medicines Act 1968 (c. 67), and
(b)undertake that all medicines supplied by them under the arrangements will be dispensed either by or under the supervision of a registered pharmacist.
(3)Regulations must provide for the preparation and publication by each Primary Care Trust of one or more lists of medical practitioners who undertake to provide drugs, medicines or listed appliances (within the meaning given by section 126) under arrangements with the Primary Care Trust.
(4)The regulations may, in particular, include provision—
(a)as to grounds on which a Primary Care Trust may, or must, refuse to grant an application for inclusion in a list of medical practitioners referred to in subsection (3) (including grounds corresponding to the conditions referred to in section 151(2), (3) or (4) as read with section 153(2)),
(b)as to information which must be supplied to a Primary Care Trust by a medical practitioner included, or seeking inclusion, in such a list (or by arrangement with him),
(c)for the supply to a Primary Care Trust by a medical practitioner who is included, or seeking inclusion, in such a list of a criminal conviction certificate under section 112 of the Police Act 1997 (c. 50), a criminal record certificate under section 113 of that Act or an enhanced criminal record certificate under section 115 of that Act,
(d)for grounds on which a Primary Care Trust may defer a decision whether or not to grant an application for inclusion in such a list,
(e)for the disclosure by a Primary Care Trust to prescribed persons or persons of prescribed descriptions, of information of a prescribed description about applicants for inclusion in such a list, and refusals by the Primary Care Trust to grant such applications,
(f)as to criteria to be applied in making decisions under the regulations.
(5)If regulations made by virtue of subsection (4)(a) provide that a Primary Care Trust may refuse to grant an application for inclusion in such a list, they must also provide for an appeal (by way of redetermination) to the [F1First-tier Tribunal] against the decision of the Primary Care Trust.
(6)The regulations must include provision for the removal of an entry from a list in prescribed circumstances.
(7)No arrangements for the provision of—
(a)pharmaceutical services falling within section 126(3)(e), or
(b)additional pharmaceutical services provided in accordance with a direction under section 127,
may be made with persons other than those who are registered pharmacists or are of a prescribed description.
(8)Where—
(a)arrangements for the provision of pharmaceutical services have been made with a registered pharmacist, and
[F2(b)his registration is suspended by virtue of any direction or order under the Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Order 2007,]
he may not provide pharmaceutical services in person during the period of suspension.
F3(9). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 132(5) substituted (18.1.2010) by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/22), art. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 112 (with Sch. 5)
F2S. 132(8)(b) substituted (30.3.2007 as notified in the Gazettes) by Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/289), art. 1(2)(3), Sch. 1 para. 10(3)(a)
F3S. 132(9) omitted (30.3.2007) by virtue of Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/289), art. 1(2)(3), Sch. 1 para. 10(3)(b)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 132 modified (temp.) (1.3.2007) by National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), s. 8(2), Sch. 3 para. 7 (with Sch. 3 Pt. 1)
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