SCHEDULE The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (Registration) Rules 2007

PART 3 Applications related to registration

Applications for voluntary removal from the register or of annotations to the register
10. (1) Subject to the following provisions of this rule, a registrant seeking voluntary removal from the register, or of an annotation to the register, shall apply using the relevant application form, which shall be in such form as the Council shall determine from time to time.
(2) The application form for a registrant seeking voluntary removal from the register shall (amongst other matters—
(a) include a demand that the applicant pay any relevant prescribed fee; and
(b) require the applicant—
(i) if he is a superintendent pharmacist, to state this fact,
(ii) to declare in terms that he is not aware of any investigation by any enforcement or regulatory body, or proceedings brought by such a body, that relate to his fitness to practise, or of any act or omission on his part which might render him liable to an allegation being referred to the Society that his fitness to practise is impaired,
(iii) to provide any necessary supporting documentation, information or evidence as mentioned in the application form, and such additional documents, information or evidence as the Registrar may reasonably require for the purposes of verifying the information in and determining the application, and
(iv) to sign and date the application.
(3) Upon receipt of an application for voluntary removal from the register, the Registrar shall make such inquiries as he considers necessary to satisfy himself that there are no ongoing investigations or outstanding proceedings relating to the registrant's fitness to practise.
(4) Upon receipt of an application for voluntary removal of an annotation to the register, the Registrar shall make such inquiries as he considers necessary in the circumstances of the case, and if he decides to grant the application, he shall correct the register accordingly.
(5) The Registrar shall refuse the application if the applicant does not pay the relevant prescribed fee.
(6) The Registrar shall not grant an application for voluntary removal from the register unless—
(a) he is satisfied that there are no ongoing investigations or outstanding proceedings relating to the registrant's fitness to practise; or
(b) in exceptional cases, where there are such investigations or proceedings, he considers that the public interest would be best served by granting the application,
(7) Where an application for voluntary removal from the register has been granted, the Registrar shall remove him from the register and publish that fact in the Pharmaceutical Journal and on the Society's website .
The Society's website is at www.rpsgb.org.uk.