Section 80 Power for relevant disciplinary committee to disqualify and direct removal from register.C3F19C1

Where a body corporate carries on a retail pharmacy business and—

then, subject to the following provisions of this Part of this Act, the relevant disciplinary committee, after inquiring into the case, may direct that the body corporate is to be disqualified for the purposes of this Part of this Act.

Where—

then, subject to the following provisions of this Part of this Act, the relevant disciplinary committee, after inquiring into the case, may direct that the pharmacist or partnership is to be disqualified for the purposes of this Part of this Act.

But, in a case falling within subsection (1)(c) or (1A), the relevant disciplinary committee may only give a direction under the subsection in question if they are satisfied that the body corporate, the pharmacist or the partnership is unfit to carry on a retail pharmacy business safely and effectively, so far as concerns—

In any case falling F7within the preceding subsection within subsection (1) or (1A) —

But, in a case falling within subsection (1)(c) or (1A), the relevant disciplinary committee may only direct the registrar under subsection (2)(b) to remove premises from the register if they are satisfied that the body corporate, the pharmacist or the partnership is unfit to carry on a retail pharmacy business safely and effectively at or from those premises, so far as concerns—

Directions under subsection (1) F14or (1A) of this section and under paragraph (a) of F15the last preceding subsection subsection (2), and any direction under paragraph (b) of the last preceding subsection subsection (2), may, if the F16the relevant disciplinary committee think fit, be given so as to have effect for a limited period; and in that case the registrar, at the end of that period, shall restore to the register any premises removed from it in compliance with the direction given under paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) of the last preceding subsection subsection (2).

Where, in any such case as is mentioned in subsection (1) of section 72 of this Act, a representative, or a person employed by a representative in the business referred to in that subsection,—

and the offence or misconduct is such as in the opinion of the F17the relevant disciplinary committee renders him, or would if he were a pharmacist render him, unfit to be a pharmacist, then, subject to the following provisions of this Part of this Act, the the relevant disciplinary committee, after inquiring into the case, may direct that the representative shall be disqualified for the purposes of this Part of this Act.

In this and the next following section “the relevant Acts” means F18the Pharmacy Act 1954, this Act, the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, the Pharmacy (Northern Ireland) Order 1976, the Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Order 2007 and the Pharmacy Order 2010, and “representative” has the same meaning as in section 72 of this Act.