The Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2016 No. 170

Pharmacy

The Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016

Made

14th March 2016

Coming into operation

1st June 2016

The Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 5(1) of the Pharmacy (Northern Ireland) Order 1976(1). The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety(2) has approved these Regulations in accordance with Article 25A(2) of that Order(3).

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 and shall come into operation on 1st June 2016.

2.  In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994(4).

Amendment of the principal Regulations

3.  In regulation 2 of the principal Regulations (registration fees) for “£372” there shall be substituted “£398” and for “£145” there shall be substituted “£206”.

4.  For regulation 4 of the principal Regulations (retention fees) substitute—

“4.   The retention fee payable in respect of each year under Article 15(1) of the Order shall be—

(a) in respect of a member of the Society, £398;

(b) in respect of a student of the Society, £10.”.

5.  In Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations (Conditions applicable to Registration Examination)—

(a) in paragraph 3(a) for “£75.00” there shall be substituted “£174”;

(b) in paragraph 5 for “£40.00” there shall be substituted “£174”.

Sealed with the Common Seal of the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland on 14th March 2016 in the presence of

Jim Livingstone

President

Brendan Kerr

Registrar

The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety approves the Regulations.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on 14th March 2016.

Dr Gerry Mulligan

A senior officer of the

Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994 (“the principal Regulations”) which prescribe the fees for examination and registration, for retention of registration and for annotation of the register, which are to be paid to the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland (“the Society”).

Regulation 3 increases the fees in regulation 2 of the principal Regulations in respect of registration as a pharmaceutical chemist and as a student.

Regulation 4 substitutes regulation 4 of the principal Regulations. Under the new provisions, there are no distinct categories of retention fee for non-residents, over 65s and over 70s. The fee in respect of retention as a member of the Society is increased from £372 to £398.

Regulation 5 amends Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations in respect of increasing the fees payable for the registration examination and re-examination.

(1)

S.I. 1976/1213 (N.I. 22) the relevant amendments are 1981 c.55, S.I. 1994/429 (N.I. 2), S.R. 2004 No. 78, S.R. 2008 No. 192, S.R. 2012 No. 308, and S.I. 2015/ 806.

(2)

S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1), Article 3(6).

(3)

Article 25A is inserted by Article 9 of S.R. 2012 No. 308.

(4)

S.R. 1994 No. 202 as amended by S.R. 1996 No. 187, S.R. 1999 No.217, S.R. 2002 No. 206, S.R. 2003 No. 356, S.R. 2004 No. 236, S.R. 2005 No. 63, S.R. 2006 Nos. 207 and 240, S.R. 2007 No. 287, S.R. 2008 No. 222 and S.R. 2009 No. 166.