337A: After Clause 202, insert the following new Clause—
““Power to regulate pharmacists
(1) The Medicines Act 1968 is amended as follows.
(2) After section 58(6) there is inserted—
““(7) Subsection (2)(a) does not apply to the sale or supply of a medicinal product by a person lawfully conducting retail pharmacy business where the sale or supply is in accordance with a prescription and, having exercised all due diligence, believes on reasonable grounds that those requirements have been fulfilled.
(8) The activity under subsection (7) shall be regulated by the General Pharmaceutical Council.
(9) The General Pharmaceutical Council may take what steps it considers necessary under section 6(1) of The Pharmacy Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/231) in relation to a person who performs an activity referred to in subsection (7).””
(3) After section 64(5)(b) there is inserted—
““(6) Subsection (1) does not apply to the sale or supply of a medicinal product by a person lawfully conducting retail pharmacy business where the sale or supply is in accordance with a prescription and that person selling or supplying the product, having exercised all due diligence, believes on reasonable grounds that those requirements have been fulfilled.
(7) The activity under subsection (6) shall be regulated by the General Pharmaceutical Council.
(8) The General Pharmaceutical Council may take what steps it considers necessary under section 6(1) of The Pharmacy Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/231) in relation to a person who performs an activity referred to in subsection (6).””
(4) After section 85(5) there is inserted—
““(6) Subsection (1)(a) to (c) does not apply to the sale or supply of a medicinal product by a person lawfully conducting retail pharmacy business where the sale or supply is in accordance with a prescription and that person selling or supplying the product, having exercised all due diligence, believes on reasonable grounds that those requirements have been fulfilled.
(7) The activity under subsection (1) shall be regulated by the General Pharmaceutical Council.
(8) The General Pharmaceutical Council may take what steps it considers necessary under section 6(1) of The Pharmacy Order 2010 (SI 2010/231) in relation to a person who performs an activity referred to in subsection (6).””.””
Health and Social Care Bill
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Lord Clement-Jones
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Lords on Monday, 19 December 2011.
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