Duration of entitlement to provide occasional pharmacy services
7.—(1) Unless an entitlement under paragraph 3 or 6 is continued by paragraph 6(2), or further continued by paragraph 6(4), the entitlement ceases at the end of the year that begins with the end of the day on which the Registrar received the documents whose receipt gave rise to the entitlement.
(2) Where an entitlement under paragraph 3 or 6 is continued by paragraph 6(2), or further continued by paragraph 6(4), the entitlement is extended so as to cease at the end of the year that begins with the end of the relevant day.
(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2)—
(a)if the day on which the Registrar receives the documents whose receipt gives rise to the continuation (or further continuation) is an anniversary of the start day, “the relevant day” means the day on which the Registrar receives those documents;
(b)otherwise, “the relevant day” means the anniversary of the start day that is the first such anniversary to occur after the Registrar receives the documents whose receipt gives rise to the continuation (or further continuation).
(4) In sub-paragraph (3) “the start day”, in relation to an entitlement under paragraph 3 or 6(4), means the day on which the Registrar receives the documents whose receipt gives rise to the entitlement.
(5) An entitlement under this Part to provide occasional pharmacy services ceases if—
(a)the visiting practitioner concerned becomes established as a pharmacist in the United Kingdom; or
(b)a disqualifying decision is made against the visiting practitioner concerned.
(6) In sub-paragraph (5), “disqualifying decision”, in relation to a visiting practitioner, means a decision made by a competent or judicial authority in the practitioner’s home State that has the effect that the practitioner—
(a)ceases in that State to be registered or otherwise officially recognised as a pharmacist; or
(b)is prohibited (whether on a permanent or temporary basis) from practising as a pharmacist in that State.
(7) If in the case of a visiting practitioner—
(a)the practitioner’s entry in Part 4 of the Register is suspended or the practitioner’s name is removed from that part of the Register; and
(b)immediately before the time when the suspension or, as the case may be, removal takes effect, the practitioner is entitled under this Part to provide occasional pharmacy services,
that entitlement ceases at that time.