The Pharmacy Order 2010

Powers of the Council

3.—(1) Subject to the following provisions of this Schedule, the Council has power to do anything which is calculated to facilitate the discharge of its functions or which is incidental or conducive to the discharge of its functions.

(2) The Council has, in particular, power—

(a) to borrow;

(b) to institute criminal prosecutions under any enactment;

(c) to appoint such staff (including, subject to paragraph 2(1)(f), a Chief Executive Officer) as it may determine;

(d) to establish such sub-committees of any of its committees as it may determine;

(e) subject to any provision made by or under this Order, to regulate the procedure of any of its committees or their sub-committees;

(f) to abolish any of its committees, other than a statutory committee, or to abolish any sub-committee of any of its committees;

(g) to pay its members such remuneration, pensions, allowances, expenses or gratuities, or make such contributions or payments towards provision for such pensions, allowances or gratuities, as may be determined by the Privy Council on appointment;

(h) to pay the members of its statutory committees (including co-opted members), the members of any of its other committees and the members of the sub-committees of any of its committees such remuneration, pensions, allowances, expenses or gratuities, or make such contributions or payments towards provision for such pensions, allowances or gratuities, as it may reasonably determine;

(i) to pay its staff (including the Registrar and any Deputy Registrar) such remuneration, pensions, allowances, expenses or gratuities, or make such contributions or payments towards provision for such pensions, allowances or gratuities, as it may reasonably determine;

(j) to pay such remuneration, allowances or expenses as it may reasonably determine to advisers advising the Council or one of its committees on issues falling within the advisers’ speciality which are under consideration by the Council or committee, including legal advisers appointed under article 63 and clinical and other specialist advisers appointed under article 64.

(3) The powers of the Council may be exercised even though there is a vacancy among its members.

(4) No proceedings of the Council are to be invalidated by any defect in the appointment of a member.

(5) Subject to any provision made by or under this Order, the Council may regulate its own procedure.