{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pharmaceutical-services-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pharmaceutical-services-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/381",
  "legislation_title": "Pharmaceutical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pharmaceutical-services-regulations-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Removal from pharmaceutical list",
  "text": "(1) Where a chemist has—\n(a) died; or\n(b) is no longer a chemist,\nthe Board shall remove his name from the pharmaceutical list.\n(2) Where a Board determines that a chemist, whose name has been included for the preceding 6 months in the pharmaceutical list, has not during that period provided pharmaceutical services, it may, subject to paragraph (5)(b), remove that chemist's name from that list.\n(3) A period during which the chemist was suspended by direction of the Tribunal does not count towards the period of 6 months referred to in paragraph (2).\n(4) Before making any determination under paragraph (2) the Board shall—\n(a) give the chemist 28 days' notice of its intention;\n(b) afford the chemist an opportunity of making representations to the Board in writing or, if he so desires, in person; and\n(c) consult the Local Pharmaceutical Committee.\n(5) Nothing in this regulation shall—\n(a) prejudice the right of a chemist to be included again in the pharmaceutical list; or\n(b) apply to a chemist who is performing a period of relevant service, and paragraph (2) shall not apply in respect of any such chemist until 6 months after he has completed that relevant service.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 in operation at 6.10.1997, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1997/381",
      "affecting_title": "Pharmaceutical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/1997/547",
      "affecting_title": "Pharmaceutical Services (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/1997/547",
      "affecting_title": "Pharmaceutical Services (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2001/222",
      "affecting_title": "Pharmaceutical Services (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "reg. 7(5) renumbered as reg. 7(4A)",
      "affecting": "nisr/2002/92",
      "affecting_title": "Pharmaceutical Services and General Medical Services (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2005/231",
      "affecting_title": "The Pharmaceutical Services and Charges for Drugs and Appliances (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2022/116",
      "affecting_title": "The Pharmaceutical Services (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/381/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:27:30.758145+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."
}