The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (Registration Rules) Order of Council 2007

Applications for annotations to denote that a registered pharmacist is a supplementary prescriber or an independent prescriber

9.—(1) Subject to the following provisions of this rule, a registered pharmacist seeking an annotation to the Register of Pharmacists, or the restoration of an annotation to the Register of Pharmacists, to denote he is a supplementary prescriber or an independent prescriber(1) shall apply using the relevant application form, which shall be in such form as the Council shall determine from time to time.

(2) The application form shall (amongst other matters)—

(a) include a demand that the applicant pay any relevant prescribed fee; and

(b) require the applicant—

(i) to provide any necessary supporting documentation, information or evidence as mentioned in the application form, and such additional documents, information or evidence as the Registrar may reasonably require for the purposes of verifying the information in and determining the application, and

(ii) to sign and date the application.

(3) The Registrar shall refuse the application if the applicant does not pay the relevant prescribed fee.

(4) Each registered pharmacist whose entry in the Register of Pharmacists on 1st January of any calendar year is annotated to the effect that he is a supplementary prescriber or an independent prescriber shall be liable to pay the retention fee in respect of that annotation for that year.

(5) Subject to the following provisions of this rule, applicants for retention of such an annotation shall apply using the relevant application form, which shall be in such form as the Council shall determine from time to time.

(6) The Registrar shall send to each registrant whose entry in the register is annotated an application form for retention of the annotation at least one month before the date on which the retention fee in respect of that annotation falls due.

(7) If a registrant with an annotation has not received an application form for retention of the annotation by 10th December of any year, he must notify the Registrar accordingly.

(8) The application form for retention of the annotation shall (amongst other matters) include a demand that the registrant pay the retention fee in respect of the annotation by 1st January.

(9) Where a registrant has failed to pay the retention fee in respect of an annotation by 1st January of the year to which the fee relates, the Registrar shall serve on that registrant a final demand informing him in terms that—

(a) no further warning will be given; and

(b) failure to pay the retention fee in respect of the annotation within two months from the date of the final demand will result in removal of the annotation.

(10) Where a registrant has failed to pay the retention fee in respect of the annotation by the date notified in accordance with paragraph (9), the Registrar shall remove the annotation from the Register of Pharmacists.

(11) The Registrar shall remove any annotation in the Register of Pharmacists to denote that a registrant is a supplementary prescriber or an independent prescriber where doing so is necessary to give effect to a decision of a fitness to practise committee.

(1)

These are the only specialisations that are currently subject to annotations.