The Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland (Fitness to Practise and Disqualification) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012

Duty to provide information to the registrar

3.—(1) A registered person must notify the registrar in writing of the events specified in paragraph (2) within the period of 7 days starting on and including the day on which the event occurs.

(2) Those events are if the registered person—

(a) is convicted of any criminal offence;

(b) accepts a police caution;

(c) has agreed to pay a penalty under section 109A of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Order 1992(1) (penalty as an alternative to prosecution);

(d) is notified by a regulatory body in the United Kingdom responsible under any statutory provision for the regulation of a health or social care profession of a determination to the effect that their fitness to practise is impaired, or a determination by a regulatory body elsewhere to the same effect;

(e) becomes subject to an investigation into their fitness to practise by another regulatory body (apart from the Society);

(f) becomes the subject of any fraud investigation by an HSC body;

(g) is removed, contingently removed or suspended from, refused admission to or conditionally included in any list held by an HSC body or providers of pharmaceutical services on fitness to practise grounds;

(h) is included in a barred list (within the meaning of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006(2) or the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Northern Ireland) Order 2007(3); or

(i) has agreed to be bound over to keep the peace by the magistrates’ court in Northern Ireland.

(1)

1992 c.8; section 109A was inserted by the Social Security Administration (Fraud) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997 SI 1997/1182 (N.I.11),Article 14

(2)

2006 c.47

(3)

S.I. 2007/1351 (N.I.11)