Paragraph 1 General provisions

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch. 2 para. 6(6) words omitted by National Health Service (Local Pharmaceutical Services) 2012 reg. 2(2)(a)(i)
sch 2 rev in pt (19.1.2007) by National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) 2006 reg 7
Sch. 2 para. 1(1)(c) added by Local Involvement Networks 2008 reg. 8
Sch. 2 para. 25 substituted by Local Authority Social Services and National Health Service Complaints 2009 Sch. para. 2
sch 2 am by National Health Service (Miscellaneous Amendments Relating to Community Pharmaceutical Services and Optometrist Prescribing) 2009 regs 29, 34
Sch. 2 para. 18 words substituted by National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services and Local Pharmaceutical Services) 2010 reg. 11(c)
Sch. 2 para. 29(2)(h)(i) words inserted by Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (Consequential Amendments) 2012 Sch. 3 para. 52(3)(a)(i)
Sch. 2 para. 29(2)(h)(i) words omitted by Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (Consequential Amendments) 2012 Sch. 3 para. 52(3)(a)(ii)
Sch. 2 para. 29(2)(h)(i) words inserted by Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (Consequential Amendments) 2012 Sch. 3 para. 52(3)(a)(iii)
Sch. 2 para. 29(2)(h)(ii) words inserted by Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (Consequential Amendments) 2012 Sch. 3 para. 52(3)(b)
Sch. 2 para. 6(6)(f) words omitted by National Health Service (Local Pharmaceutical Services) 2012 reg. 2(2)(a)(ii)
Sch. 2 para. 6(7) omitted by National Health Service (Local Pharmaceutical Services) 2012 reg. 2(2)(b)
Sch. 2 para. 6(8)(a) omitted by National Health Service (Local Pharmaceutical Services) 2012 reg. 2(2)(c)
Sch. 2 para. 6(8A) inserted by National Health Service (Local Pharmaceutical Services) 2012 reg. 2(2)(d)
Sch. 2 para. 1(1)(b) omitted by Local Involvement Networks 2008 Sch. para. 11(4)

(1)

The contractor must comply with all relevant legislation, including—

(a)

the provisions of these Regulations; and

(b)

regulation 3 of the Patients' Forums (Functions) Regulations 2003^f1 in so far as it relates to the entry and inspection of premises from where local pharmaceutical services are provided.

(2)

The contractor must comply with the relevant provisions of the Drug Tariff.

(3)

The contractor must have regard to all relevant guidance issued by—

(a)

the Primary Care Trust;

(b)

the relevant Strategic Health Authority; or

(c)

the Secretary of State.

(4)

To the extent that the provisions of the terms required by this Schedule impose a requirement on a contractor in respect of an activity which could only, or would normally, be undertaken by a natural person—

(a)

if the contractor is a registered pharmacist—

(i)

that registered pharmacist must comply with the requirement, or

(ii)

if he employs or engages a registered pharmacist in connection with the provision of local pharmaceutical services under his LPS scheme, the contractor must either comply with that requirement or secure compliance with that requirement by the registered pharmacist he employs or engages; and

(b)

if the contractor is not a natural person, that contractor must secure compliance with that requirement by the registered pharmacists it employs or engages,

and references in this Schedule to a contractor shall be construed accordingly.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 2003/124; regulation 3 has been amended by S.I. 2004/540, 696 and 865.