PART 3Conditional inclusion, suspension and removal from pharmaceutical lists

Cases where the Primary Care Trust must remove a chemist47

1

Subject to paragraph (2), a Primary Care Trust must remove a chemist’s name from its pharmaceutical list where it becomes aware that the chemist (and where the chemist is a body corporate, any director or superintendent of the chemist)—

a

has been convicted in the United Kingdom of murder;

b

has been convicted in the United Kingdom of a criminal offence which was committed after the date on which these Regulations come into force and has been sentenced to a term of imprisonment of over six months; or

c

is subject to a national disqualification.

2

Where the ground for removal under paragraph (1) is that a director of a body corporate has been convicted of a criminal offence (other than murder), the Primary Care Trust shall notify the body corporate that unless—

a

the director concerned ceases to be a director of the body corporate within the period of 28 days commencing with the date of the notice; and

b

the body corporate notifies the Primary Care Trust of this fact within that period,

it shall remove the name of the body corporate from its pharmaceutical list under paragraph (1).

3

The Primary Care Trust shall notify the chemist immediately that his name has been removed from the pharmaceutical list.