# The Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Order 2007, Paragraph 1: Interpretation of this Schedule and construction of old legislation


(1) In this Schedule—
“appointed day” means—
(a) except in Part 3, the day specified under article 1 for the coming into force of article 10; and
(b) in Part 3, the day specified under article 1 for the coming into force of article 21;
“Infringements Committee” means the Infringements Committee established under the Charter, as it continues in being by virtue of paragraph 3(a);
“old committees” means the Statutory Committee and the Infringements Committee;
“the old rules” means the regulations and rules made by the Council and the old committees in respect of the old committees’ procedures, in particular—
(a) the Regulations scheduled to the Pharmaceutical Society (Statutory Committee) Order of Council 1978; and
(b) the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain Infringements Committee (Procedure) Rules 2005,
as they had effect immediately before the appointed day, but subject to the modifications in sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) and such other modifications as the Council considers appropriate in the circumstances of a case;
“Register of Pharmacists” means, as the context requires, either the register maintained under article 10(1) or the register maintained under section 2(1) of the 1954 Act;
“relevant court” has the meaning given in section 4B(2) of the 1954 Act;
“specified period” has the meaning given in section 2(2C) of the 1954 Act;
“Statutory Committee” means the Statutory Committee established under section 7 of the 1954 Act, as it continues in being by virtue of paragraph 3(b); and
“voluntary register” means the voluntary register of pharmacy technicians maintained by the Society before the coming into force of article 21.
(2) Where, by virtue of this Schedule, the Disciplinary Committee is to dispose of a case in accordance with the old rules and the 1954 Act, references in those rules—
(a) to the Statutory Committee shall be construed, as appropriate, as references to the Disciplinary Committee; and
(b) to the secretary or chairman of the Statutory Committee shall be construed, as appropriate, as references to the secretary or chair of the Disciplinary Committee.
(3) Where, by virtue of this Schedule, the Disciplinary Committee or the Statutory Committee is to dispose of a case in accordance with the Regulations scheduled to the Pharmaceutical Society (Statutory Committee) Order of Council 1978, those Regulations shall apply as if they included provision—
(a) enabling the Committee to award costs or expenses (to be assessed in such manner as the Committee considers just, but the award may not take into account costs or expenses incurred before the appointed day); and
(b) allowing the award of—
(i) costs which, by leave of the High Court, are to be enforced in the same manner as an order of the High Court to the same effect, and
(ii) expenses which, by leave of the Court of Session, are to be enforced in the same manner as a decree of the Court of Session to the same effect.
(4) Where provision is made in this Schedule for appeals to be disposed of in accordance with sections 10 and 11 of the 1954 Act—
(a) those sections shall continue to apply for the purposes of disposing of those appeals, except that section 11 shall apply as if subsection (2) of that section were omitted; and
(b) if the appeal is from the Disciplinary Committee, the reference in section 10(1) to the Statutory Committee shall be construed as a reference to the Disciplinary Committee.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2007/0110754611/schedule/2/paragraph/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-pharmacists-and-pharmacy-technicians-order-2007/schedule-2/paragraph-1
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