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19.—(1) An accountable officer, who is an accountable officer nominated or appointed by a Primary Care Trust or Health Board, must establish and operate appropriate arrangements or ensure that his designated body establishes and operates appropriate arrangements for making, in connection with the performance of functions under these Regulations, periodic inspections (in accordance with section 20 of the 2006 Act) of premises which are—
(a)used in connection with management or use of controlled drugs; and
(b)not subject to inspection by—
(i)the Healthcare Commission,
(ii)the Commission for Social Care Inspection, or
(iii)the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
(2) Where a designated body has authorised in writing under section 20(5)(c) of the 2006 Act a person to carry out inspections of relevant premises (or of specific relevant premises), the arrangements under paragraph (1) may (where appropriate) provide for that person to carry out periodic inspections under the arrangements.
(3) The accountable officer, or the person referred to in paragraph (2), is not required to give notice of the inspection to the owner or occupier of the premises.
(4) The accountable officer, or the person referred to in paragraph (2), must keep a record of all the inspections carried out by him as part of the arrangements made under paragraph (1).
(5) That record of inspections may be kept in paper or electronic format.
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