Explanatory note

This Order amends Articles 5, 8, and 14 of the Pharmacy (Northern Ireland) Order 1976, to provide for annotation of the register of Pharmaceutical Chemists to indicate pharmacists who have particular qualifications, specialist areas of practice and status.

Article 5 of the principal Order is amended to enable the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland to make regulations with respect to the annotation of the register of pharmaceutical chemists to indicate certain qualifications, specialist areas of practice and status (Article 2(b)) and the charging of a fee for annotation (Article 2(a)).

Article 8 of the principal Order is amended so that a person is entitled to have an annotation recorded against his name on the register if he satisfies the requirements prescribed in regulations made by the Council, provides such proof as may be prescribed and pays the required fee (Article 3).

Article 14 of the principal Order is amended so that any certificate of registration issued to any person shall include any annotation recorded against that person’s name (Article 4).