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The Pharmacy Order 2010

Amendment of the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002E+W+S

This section has no associated Executive Note

10.—(1) The National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In section 25(2) ([F1the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care]), in subsection (3), for paragraph (f) substitute—

“(f)the General Pharmaceutical Council,”.

(3) In section 26(3) (powers and duties of the Council: general), omit subsection (5).

(4) In section 29(4) (references of disciplinary cases by Council to court), for paragraph (a) of subsection (1) substitute—

“(a)a direction of the Fitness to Practise Committee of the General Pharmaceutical Council under article 54 of the Pharmacy Order 2010 (consideration by the Fitness to Practise Committee) or under section 80 of the Medicines Act 1968 (power to disqualify and direct removal from register),”.

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I1Sch. 4 para. 10 in force at 10.2.2010 for specified purposes, see art. 1(3)

I2Sch. 4 para. 10 in force at 27.9.2010 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2010/1621, art. 2(1), Sch.

(2)

The name of the Council was changed by section 113 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c.14). The section heading to section 25 was substituted by paragraph 16 of Schedule 10 to that Act and other amendments to section 25 were made by paragraph 17 of that Schedule.

(3)

Section 26(5) was amended by S.I.2007/289.

(4)

Section 29(1) was amended by the Health and Social Care Act 2008, section 118(2) and by S.I.2002/3135, 2004/1771, 2005/848 and 2011 and 2007/289.