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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-scotland-regulations-2009/schedule-4/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-scotland-regulations-2009/schedule-4/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2009/183",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-scotland-regulations-2009",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Voting",
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2), (3) and (4) below, every application considered by the Pharmacy Practices Committee shall be considered by all members present, but shall be determined only by a majority of votes of the members present who are entitled to vote.\n(2) Except in the circumstances set out in paragraph (4) only a member appointed by virtue of paragraph 3(1)(c) is entitled to vote.\n(3) A member appointed by virtue of paragraph 3(1)(b) or 3(1A) is not entitled to vote and shall withdraw immediately before a decision on an application by voting takes place.\n(4) The chair, or in the chair’s absence the person acting as chair, shall not be entitled to vote at any meeting except in the case of an equality of votes of the other persons present and voting, in which case the chair shall have a casting vote.\n(5) The Pharmacy Practices Committee shall within ten working days of taking its decision give written notification to the Board of that decision and the information required under paragraph 3(6) of Schedule 3.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 6(2) substituted (1.4.2011) by The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2011 (S.S.I. 2011/32), regs. 1, 9(7) (with reg. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in sch. 4 para. 6(3) substituted (1.4.2011) by The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2011 (S.S.I. 2011/32), regs. 1, 9(8) (with reg. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in sch. 4 para. 6(5) substituted (28.6.2014) by The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2014 (S.S.I. 2014/148), regs. 1(1), 9(b) (with reg. 14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 6 in force at 1.7.2009, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2009/183/schedule/4/paragraph/6",
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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."
}