The Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Order 2007

Education and training outside the United Kingdom

64.—(1) The Society may perform the following functions outside the United Kingdom—

(a) accreditation of degree courses for prospective pharmacists and approval of providers of such courses;

(b) approval or accreditation of programmes or courses of education and training for prospective pharmacy technicians;

(c) approval of courses for, or providers of, postgraduate education and training for prospective pharmacists;

(d) approval of premises as being suitable for postgraduate education and training of prospective pharmacists;

(e) approval of courses for, or providers of, preregistration additional education, training or experience for prospective pharmacists and prospective pharmacy technicians; and

(f) approval of courses for, or providers of, additional education, training or experience for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians either for continuing professional development or for the purposes of obtaining annotations to professional registers,

and it may enter into arrangements with a body outside the United Kingdom to assist it in the performance of the functions referred to in sub-paragraphs (a) to (f) or to perform those functions on its behalf.

(2) Approval or accreditation pursuant to paragraph (1) may—

(a) be made subject to conditions (such as limiting approval of a course to the provision of that course at specified premises); and

(b) be in respect of a programme or course of education or training that only provides part of the education or training needed for an approved or accredited course or programme, or for an approved qualification, where the Society is satisfied that there are appropriate arrangements in place for persons participating in the education and training to receive the remainder of the education or training necessary for the approved or accredited course or programme, or for the approved qualification, elsewhere.