The National Health Service (Local Pharmaceutical Services etc.) Regulations 2006 No. 552

SCHEDULE 1 Modification and amendment of the National Health Service Act 1977 and modification of the Health Service Commissioners Act 1993

Functions of Local Pharmaceutical Committees

7.  In section 45 of the Act(1) (which relates to the functions of local representative committees)—

(a) subsection (1ZA) shall apply as if—

(i) “or” were added at the end of paragraph (aa) and omitted at the end of paragraph (a),

(ii) in paragraph (aa), for “section 44(B2)(b)(ii)” there were substituted “section 44(B2)(b)”, and

(iii) after paragraph (aa) there were inserted the following paragraph—

“(ab) Primary Care Trusts, in the exercise of any of their functions which relate to LPS schemes, to consult committees recognised by them under section 44(B2)(b) above,”; and

(b) subsection (1C) shall apply as if, for “(B2)(b)(ii)” there were substituted “(B2)(b)(ii), (iii) or (iv)”.

(1)

In section 45: subsection (1ZA) was inserted by the 2002 Act, section 5(9); subsection (1ZA)(aa) and (e) were amended by SI 2002/ 2861; subsection (1C) was inserted by the 1999 Act, section 11(6), and amended by the 2002 Act, section 5(11); and subsection (4) was inserted by the 1999 Act, section 11(8).