Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

Made: 5th May 1999

Coming into operation: 1st June 1999

The Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 5 of the Pharmacy (Northern Ireland) Order 1976[^f00001] and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, with the approval of the Department of Health and Social Services, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1

• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 and shall come into operation on 1st June 1999.

• (2) In these Regulations “the principal regulations” means the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994[^f00002].

Amendment of the principal Regulations

2

In regulation 2 of the principal regulations (registration fees) for “£100” there shall be substituted “£120”.

3

In regulation 4 of the principal regulations (retention fees)–

• (a) in paragraph (1)(a) for “£100” there shall be substituted “£120”;

• (b) in paragraph (2)(b) for “£45” there shall be substituted “£55”;

• (c) in paragraph (2)(c) for “£20” there shall be substituted “£25”.

4

In regulation 5 of the principal regulations (Penalty)–

• (a) in paragraph (a) for “£50” there shall be substituted “£60”;

5

In regulation 9, after paragraph 2(d) there is added the following paragraph–

(e) he has not failed an examination set by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain for registration as a pharmaceutical chemist in Great Britain.

Signed

Sealed with the Common Seal of the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland on 5th May 1999 in the presence of

T. A. Maguire — President

R. McMullan — Treasurer

The Department of Health and Social Services hereby approves the foregoing Regulations.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services on

W. B. Smith — Assistant Secretary — 5th May 1999.

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations amend the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994 (S.R. 1994 No. 202) by increasing fees payable in respect of–

• (a) registration as a pharmaceutical chemist (regulation 2);

• (b) retention fees payable in respect of members of the Society (regulation 4);

• (c) penalty for default in payment of the retention fee (regulation 5).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1976/1213 (N.I. 22), as amended by S.R. 1987 No. 457

[^f00002]: S.R. 1994 No. 202, as amended by S.R. 1996 No. 187