8.—(1) The National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002(1) is amended as follows.
(2) In section 26 (powers and duties of the Council for the Regulation of Health Care Professionals: general), in subsection (5)—
(a)for “or an officer or committee of the Society”, where it first appears, substitute “a member of its staff or one of its committees”;
(b)for paragraph (a) substitute the following paragraph—
“(a)conferred on the Society (or its Council, a member of its staff or one of its committees) by or by virtue of the Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Order 2007,”;
(c)in paragraph (b), for “an Order in Council” substitute “another Order in Council”; and
(d)for paragraph (c) substitute the following paragraph—
“(c)otherwise conferred as mentioned in paragraph (a) and relate to the regulation of the professions regulated by the Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Order 2007.”
(3) In section 29(2) (references of disciplinary cases by Council to court), in subsection (1), for paragraph (a) substitute the following paragraph—
“(a)a direction of the Disciplinary Committee of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain under article 52 of the Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Order 2007 (which gives the Disciplinary Committee powers to direct suspension of registration, the attachment of conditions to registration or removal from the registers) or section 80 of the Medicines Act 1968 (power to disqualify and direct removal from register),”.
Section 29(1) has been amended by S.I. 2002/3135, 2004/1771 and 2005/848 and 2011.