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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-pharmaceutical-council-registration-rules-order-of-council-2010/schedule/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2010/1617",
  "legislation_title": "The General Pharmaceutical Council (Registration Rules) Order of Council 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-pharmaceutical-council-registration-rules-order-of-council-2010",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Rules—\n“the Act” means the Medicines Act 1968;\n“the Order” means the Pharmacy Order 2010;\n“Fitness to Practise Rules” means the General Pharmaceutical Council (Fitness to Practise and Disqualification etc.) Rules;\n“health care professional” means an individual registered with a health care regulatory body;\n“legal professional” means a person who is legally qualified within the meaning of rule 2 of the General Pharmaceutical Council (Statutory Committees and their Advisers) Rules 2010;\n“made on line”, in relation to an application under Part 3 or 5 of these Rules, means submitted to the Registrar in electronic format via the internet;\n“prescribed fee” means any fee prescribed in rules made by the Council under article 36 of the Order;\n“representative” means a representative within the meaning given in section 72(4) of the Act (representative of pharmacist in case of death or disability); and\n“responsible pharmacist” has the meaning given in section 72A of the Act (the responsible pharmacist).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. rule 2 in force at 27.9.2010, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "These Rules are Scheduled to S.I.2010/1615."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "These Rules are Scheduled to S.I.2010/1616."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 72 was amended by the Adults With Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 4), the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (c.9) and by S.S.I.2001/81, S.I.2007/289 and 1997 and S.I.2008/2714."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 72A was inserted by section 30(1) of the Health Act 2006 (c.28) as from 1 October 2009."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/1617/schedule/paragraph/2",
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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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