Statutory Instruments
2011 No. 1367
Health Care And Associated Professions
Pharmacy
The General Pharmaceutical Council (Continuing Professional Development and Consequential Amendments) Rules Order of Council 2011
Made
1st June 2011
Laid before Parliament
3rd June 2011
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
3rd June 2011
Coming into force
2nd July 2011
At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 1st day of June 2011
By the Lords of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council
The General Pharmaceutical Council(1) has made the General Pharmaceutical Council (Continuing Professional Development and Consequential Amendments) Rules 2011 which are set out in the Schedule to this Order, in exercise of the powers conferred by articles 27(1), 37(3)(c)(iii), 43(7) and (8), 52(1) and (2)(b), 61(1)(b), (2) and (3) and 66(1)(a) and (c) of, and paragraph 5(3)(d) of Schedule 1 to, the Pharmacy Order 2010(2).
In accordance with article 66(3) of that Order, the General Pharmaceutical Council has, in relation to rules under Parts 4 to 7 of that Order, consulted such persons and organisations as it considered appropriate including the organisations listed in paragraphs (a) to (h) of article 66(3) of that Order.
By virtue of article 66(4) of that Order, such rules cannot come into force until approved by order of the Privy Council.
The Council was established by article 4 of the Pharmacy Order 2010 (S.I.2010/231).
See article 3(1) of the Pharmacy Order 2010 for the definition of “prescribed” which is relevant to the powers being exercised in the making of the Rules scheduled to this Order.