The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) Regulations 2016

Amendment of Schedule 2B

24.—(1) Schedule 2B (visiting pharmaceutical chemist from a relevant European State)(1) is amended as follows.

(2) For paragraph 1, substitute—

“1.   This Schedule applies to a person who—

(a) is an exempt person who is lawfully established as a pharmacist in a relevant European State other than the United Kingdom; and

(b) is not a person to whom paragraph 15 of Schedule 2C (European professional card and entitlement to registration: provision of occasional pharmacy services) to this Order or paragraph 15 of Schedule 2A (European professional card and entitlement to registration: provision of occasional pharmacy services) to the Pharmacy Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/231) applies.”.

(3) In paragraph 4(b)—

(a) for “3(9)(a) or (e)” substitute “3(8)(a) or (e)”;

(b) for “14 to 16” substitute “19 to 23”;

(4) In paragraph 5—

(a) in sub-paragraph (2)(a)—

(i) in sub-paragraph (i), omit the “and” at the end;

(ii) after sub-paragraph (ii), insert—

“(iii) confirms that the practitioner does not have a criminal conviction; and

(iv) confirms that the practitioner is not subject to a temporary or final suspension preventing practice as a pharmacist;”;

(b) after sub-paragraph (2)(a), insert—

“(aa) a written declaration as to whether the practitioner has the necessary knowledge of English;”;

(c) in sub-paragraph (3), after “(2)(a)” insert “or (aa)”.

(5) After paragraph 5, insert—

“First provision of services: visiting practitioners from Great Britain

5A.— (1) The registrar must treat a visiting practitioner who—

(a) applies to be registered in the register mentioned in Article 6(1)(d) as a visiting practitioner; and

(b) is entered in Part 4 of the register maintained under article 19 of the Pharmacy Order 2010 relating to pharmacists who are visiting practitioners to Great Britain,

as complying with the requirements of paragraph 5.

(2) The registrar may require the visiting practitioner to provide additional information concerning his or her professional qualifications as a result of differences in the way that the profession is regulated in different parts of the United Kingdom.

(3) Sub-paragraph (1) does not apply if the registrar has required the visiting practitioner to provide information under sub-paragraph (2) and the visiting practitioner has not done so.”.

(6) In paragraph 6(2)—

(a) for “3(9)(a) or (e)” substitute “3(8)(a) or (e);

(b) for “14 to 16” substitute “19 to 23”.

(7) In paragraph 8(6), after “home State” insert “or, if different, a relevant European State in which the practitioner practises or has practised as a pharmacist”.

(1)

Schedule 2B was inserted by S.R. (N.I.) 2008 No. 192.