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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-european-qualifications-health-and-social-care-professions-amendment-etc-eu-exit-regulations-2018/schedule-2/paragraph-45",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2018/9780111177686",
  "legislation_title": "The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-european-qualifications-health-and-social-care-professions-amendment-etc-eu-exit-regulations-2018",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/45",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "45",
  "heading": "Visiting pharmacists and pharmacy technicians: saving of old law for up to one year",
  "text": "(1) Where, immediately before exit day—\n(a) a visiting pharmacist or pharmacy technician was entitled under paragraph 3, 6, 11 or 14 of Schedule 2 to the 2010 Order to provide occasional pharmacy services, or\n(b) the Registrar was in receipt of the required documents (within the meaning of paragraph 4 or 12 of that Schedule) from a pharmacist or pharmacy technician seeking to acquire that entitlement,\nany provision made by an Act or instrument amended by Part 1 of this Schedule continues to apply in relation to the pharmacist or technician without the amendments that Part 1 of this Schedule makes to the provisions relating to visiting practitioners from relevant European States.\n(2) But a visiting practitioner’s entitlement does not continue (or further continue) under paragraph 6 or 14 of Schedule 2 to the 2010 Order on or after exit day (and, accordingly, the entitlement lapses at the end of—\n(a) in the case of a pharmacist, the period mentioned in paragraph 7(1) or (2) of that Schedule;\n(b) in the case of a pharmacy technician, the period mentioned in paragraph 15(1) or (2) of that Schedule).\n(3) The reference in sub-paragraph (1) to “the provisions relating to visiting practitioners from relevant European States” is to the provisions listed in the following table.\nInstrument\nProvision relating to visiting practitioners\nThe 1968 Act\nsection 67E\nsection 69(1ZA)\nsection 71(7)\nsection 78(5) and (5A)\nThe 2010 Order\nin article 3(1), the definitions of “competent authority”, “exempt person”, “General Systems Regulations”, “registered pharmacist” and “registered pharmacy technician”\narticle 19(2)(d) and (e)\narticle 29(3)(a)\narticle 32(11)\narticle 33\narticle 36(3)\narticle 37(5)\narticle 38(2) and (4)\narticle 39(1)(c), (e), (i) and (l)\narticle 43(5)(c), (8)(b) and (9)\nSchedule 2\nMedicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations 2004\nregulation 2(1)\nNational Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 2009\nregulation 2(1)\nGeneral Pharmaceutical Council (Registration) Rules 2010\nrule 18(1)(a) and (5)(a)(i)\nrule 19(1), (4)(a) and (5)(b)\nrule 20(3)(a)\nGeneral Pharmaceutical Council (Continuing Professional Development and Consequential Amendments) Rules 2011\nrule 5(2)(b) and (3)\nrule 6(f)(ii)\nrule 8(1)\nrule 9(5)\nrule 11(1)(a)\nHuman Medicines Regulations 2012\nregulation 8(1)\nNational Health Service (Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2013\nregulation 2(1)",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2018/9780111177686/schedule/2/paragraph/45",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:02:15.035598+00:00"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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