PART 5Fitness to practise

Disclosure of fitness to practise matters in the public interest

47.—(1) The Society may, if it considers it to be in the public interest to do so, publish, or disclose to any person, information—

(a)which relates to a particular pharmacist’s or pharmacy technician’s fitness to practise, whether the matter to which the information relates arose before or after his registration, or arose in the United Kingdom or elsewhere; or

(b)of a particular description related to fitness to practise in relation to every pharmacist or pharmacy technician, or to every pharmacist or pharmacy technician of a particular description.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b) above, the Society need not consider whether it is in the public interest to publish or disclose the information in question in relation to each individual pharmacist or pharmacy technician to whom it relates.