Paragraph 6 Recognition of Local Pharmaceutical Committees

Section 44 of the Act^f1 (which relates to the recognition of local representative committees) shall apply as if—

(a)

in subsection (B2)(b), the “or” were omitted at the end of sub-paragraph (i) and after sub-paragraph (ii) there were inserted the following sub-paragraphs—

“(iii)

the persons mentioned in sub-paragraph (i) above and the persons providing local pharmaceutical services under LPS arrangements in the Primary Care Trust’s area, or

(iv)

the persons mentioned in sub-paragraph (i) above and the persons providing local pharmaceutical services under LPS schemes in the Primary Care Trust’s area,”;

(b)

after subsection (3), there were inserted the following subsection—

“(3A)

Additionally, for the purposes of this section and section 45 below, a person who meets the condition in subsection (4) below is a person providing local pharmaceutical services in a Primary Care Trust’s area if he provides those services under an LPS scheme.”; and

(c)

in subsection (4), after “subsection (3)” there were inserted “and subsection (3A)”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: In section 44: subsection (B2) was inserted by the 2002 Act, section 5(4); subsection (B2)(b) was inserted by S.I. 2002/2861; and subsection (3) was inserted by the 1999 Act, section 11(1) and (4), and amended by the 2001 Act, Schedule 5, paragraph 5(7), the 2002 Act, section 5(6) and S.I. 2002/2861.