PART 2The Council and its Committees

Standards and requirements: consultation and review5.

(1)

Before setting any standards or requirements under this Order, the Council must consult such persons as it considers appropriate including, where it considers appropriate, persons appearing to it to represent—

(a)

registrants;

(b)

employers of registrants;

(c)

professional bodies or organisations appearing to the Council to represent registrants;

(d)

users of the services of registrants;

(e)

persons or bodies commissioning or funding the services provided by registrants or at registered pharmacies;

(f)

persons carrying on a retail pharmacy business at a registered pharmacy; and

(g)

persons or bodies providing, assessing, regulating or funding education and training for registrants or prospective registrants.

F1(1A)

Before setting any standards under this Order, the Council must consult the Scottish Ministers, the Welsh Ministers and the Secretary of State for Health.

(2)

The Council must keep the standards and requirements set under this Order under review and may vary or withdraw any of those standards and requirements whenever it considers it appropriate to do so.

(3)

Paragraph (1) applies to the variation or withdrawal of standards or requirements as it applies to the setting of standards or requirements.