The Pharmacy Order 2010

Specialisations: registrants and registered pharmacies

27.—(1) The Council may make such provision in rules as it considers appropriate in connection with annotations to entries in the Register to denote specialisations, and may in particular make provision with regard to—

(a) the type of specialisations that are to be subject to annotations;

(b) the form and manner in which applications for entering, renewing or restoring annotations in respect of specialisations, or for the removal of such annotations, are to be made (and the rules may provide that applicants must apply using application forms that are in such form as the Council may determine from time to time);

(c) the circumstances in which annotations in respect of specialisations are to be entered, renewed, restored or removed by the Registrar;

(d) the removal of annotations in respect of specialisations by the Registrar where a prescribed fee in respect of the renewal of the annotation has not been paid, after such warnings as may be prescribed;

(e) the standards of proficiency for the safe and effective practice of pharmacy that it is necessary for a registrant to achieve in order for an annotation in respect of a specialisation to be made to an entry in the Register of a registrant; and

(f) the standards provided for in rules made under article 7(1) that it is necessary to meet in connection with the carrying on of a retail pharmacy business at a registered pharmacy in order for an annotation in respect of a specialisation of the retail pharmacy business to be made to the entry in the Register of the registered pharmacy.

(2) Where the Registrar decides not to enter, renew or restore an annotation in respect of a specialisation of an entry in the Register of a registrant, or to remove such an annotation from the Register, the Registrar must send to that person at that person’s last known home address a statement in writing giving that person notice of the decision and the reasons for it and of the right of appeal to the Appeals Committee under article 40.

(3) Where the Registrar decides not to enter, renew or restore an annotation in respect of a specialisation of an entry in the Register of a registered pharmacy, or to remove such an annotation from the Register, the Registrar must send to the person carrying on a retail pharmacy business at the registered pharmacy a statement in writing giving that person notice of the decision and the reasons for it and of the right of appeal to the Appeals Committee under article 40.

(4) The notice under paragraph (3) must be sent—

(a) where the retail pharmacy business is carried on by an individual, to that individual at that individual’s home address in the Register;

(b) where the retail pharmacy business is carried on by a partnership, to that partnership at its principal office; or

(c) where the retail pharmacy business is carried on by a body corporate, to that body corporate at its registered or principal office.