# Pharmaceutical Services (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001, Regulation 11: Amendment of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations


(1) Part II of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations (terms of service for chemists) shall be amended as follows.
(2) Before paragraph 2 there shall be inserted—
“Directed services
1A A chemist with whom a Board makes an arrangement for the provision of any directed service shall comply with the terms and conditions of the arrangement.”.
(3) In paragraph 4 (Premises and hours), for sub-paragraph (23) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraphs—
“(23) If the Board has been directed under Article 63A(1)(a) or (b) of the Order that it must, or may, make arrangements for a pharmacist to be available to any person in the Board’s area for consultation outside the hours referred to in sub-paragraph (22) no direction shall be given under sub-paragraph (22), unless the requirements of sub-paragraph (23A) have been complied with.
(23A) The requirements referred to in sub-paragraph (23) are that—
(a) the Board must have offered to make such arrangements with the chemist;
(b) the arrangements offered must have been such that under them a pharmacist would have been available as mentioned in sub-paragraph (23) at the revised times which the Board proposes to require in its direction under sub-paragraph (22),
but it is immaterial whether or not the chemist has accepted the offer of such arrangements.
(23B) If the Board has not been directed under Article 63A(1)(a) or (b) of the Order in the manner referred to in sub-paragraph (23) no direction shall be given under sub-paragraph (22) unless a fee, allowance or other remuneration to be paid to any chemist so directed is included in the Drug Tariff or has been determined by the Board by virtue of regulation 9(2) (as the case may be).”.
(4) In paragraph 11 (Complaints), in sub-paragraph (8) the words from “and where” to the end shall be omitted.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/222/regulation/11 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/pharmaceutical-services-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/regulation-11
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