{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-amendment-regulations-1996/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-amendment-regulations-1996/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/698",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Amendment Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-amendment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Prevention of employment of disqualified or suspended pharmacists",
  "text": "(1) Paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 to the 1992 Regulations (which says that drugs must be provided either by or under the direct supervision of a pharmacist) is amended as follows.\n(2) In sub-paragraph (1), omit the words from “who” to the end.\n(3) After sub-paragraph (1) insert—\n“(1A) Where the pharmacist referred to in sub-paragraph (1) is employed by a chemist, the pharmacist must not be one—\n(a) who, having been disqualified under section 46(2)(b) of the Act (or under any corresponding provision in force in Scotland or Northern Ireland) from inclusion in the pharmaceutical list of a Health Authority (or, in Scotland, of a Health Board or, in Northern Ireland, of a Health and Social Services Board), is also the subject of a declaration under section 46(2)(c) of the Act (or any corresponding provision in force in Scotland or Northern Ireland) that he is not fit to be engaged in any capacity in the provision of pharmaceutical services; or\n(b) who is suspended by direction of the Tribunal, other than in a case falling within section 49B(3) of the Act.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/698/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:48:39.638203+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}