The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (Fitness to Practise and Registration Appeals Committees and their Advisers Rules) Order of Council 2007

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Rules—

“appointments group” means the group established by the Council in accordance with rule 5;

“appropriate person” means a natural person of good character, who is a fit and proper person to act as a member of a committee;

“CHRE” means the Council for the Regulation of Health Care Professionals established under section 25 of the National Health Service Reform and Health Professions Act 2002(1), which is also known as the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence;

“committee”, unless the context otherwise requires, means a fitness to practise committee or the Registration Appeals Committee;

“hearing” means proceedings of a statutory committee at which the parties to the proceedings may attend or be represented;

“interim order” means an interim suspension order or an order for interim conditional registration;

“the Order” means the Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Order 2007;

“lay member” means a member of a committee or group who is neither a registrant, nor in the employ of a registrant, nor a person with a registrable qualification in pharmacy; and

“professional member” means a person whose name is entered in Part 1 of one of the Society’s Registers.

(2) Pending the coming into force of article 21 of the Order, any requirement by virtue of these Rules that a person shall be a registered pharmacy technician shall be construed as a requirement that he be registered in the voluntary register of pharmacy technicians maintained by the Society.

(1)

2002 c.17.