4.—(1) Before any meeting of the Pharmacy Practices Committee begins the chair, or in the chair’s absence, the person acting as chair, shall ask the members intending to be present whether, in respect of any matter to be considered at the meeting, any of them–
(a)has an interest to declare; or
(b)is associated with a person who has any personal interest,
and any such member who has or, as the case may be, is associated with a person who has, any such interest shall disclose it accordingly.
(2) Any member who has, pursuant to the provisions of sub-paragraph (1) above, disclosed an interest or who, in the opinion, expressed to the meeting, of the chair or in the chair’s absence, the person acting as chair as the case may be, should have disclosed such an interest, shall not be present at the consideration or discussion of that matter or the voting on it, and a deputy who has no such interest may act in that member’s place.
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 4 para. 4 in force at 1.7.2009, see reg. 1