{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pharmacy-order-2010/article-48",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pharmacy-order-2010/article-48.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/231",
  "legislation_title": "The Pharmacy Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pharmacy-order-2010",
  "path": "article/48",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "Standards of conduct and performance",
  "text": "(1) The Council must—\n(a) set standards relating to the conduct, ethics and performance expected of registrants; and\n(b) make provision in rules regarding the criteria to which the Fitness to Practise Committee is to have regard when deciding, in the case of any registrant, whether or not the requirements as to fitness to practise are met in relation to that registrant.\n(1A) The standards set under this article may include standards which relate only to the conduct, ethics and performance expected of registered pharmacists who are—\n(za) chief pharmacists for the purposes of section 67F of the Medicines Act 1968,\n(a) responsible pharmacists for the purposes of sections 70 to 72 of the Medicines Act 1968, or\n(b) superintendent pharmacists.\n(1B) Where the standards set under this article include standards of the type mentioned in paragraph (1A), the standards may include a description of the professional responsibilities of chief pharmacists, responsible pharmacists or (as the case may be) superintendent pharmacists.\n(1C) The standards set under this article may include standards which relate to the conduct, ethics and performance expected of registered pharmacists giving authorisations for the purposes of regulation 220B(1)(b) of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012.\n(1D) Where the standards set under this paragraph include standards of the type mentioned in paragraph (1C), the standards may include a description of the professional responsibilities that the registered pharmacists have—\n(a) for the documentation of authorisations given orally, as mentioned in regulation 220B(1)(b)(i) of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012; and\n(b) as a consequence of the professional accountability that the registered pharmacists retain for any selling or supplying that is done pursuant to the authorisation that they have given, and in particular for ensuring due regard for patient safety.\n(2) The Council must publish the standards set under this article, as they exist from time to time, in such manner as it considers appropriate.\n(3) Where any registrant is alleged to have failed to comply with standards set under this article, that failure—\n(a) is not, of itself, to be taken to constitute misconduct on the registrant’s part; but\n(b) is to be taken into account in any proceedings against the registrant under this Order.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 48(1A)(1B) inserted (1.12.2022) by The Pharmacy (Responsible Pharmacists, Superintendent Pharmacists etc.) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/849), arts. 1(3), 7(1); S.I. 2022/1023, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 48(1A)(za) inserted (1.12.2022) by The Pharmacy (Preparation and Dispensing Errors – Hospital and Other Pharmacy Services) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/851), arts. 1(3), 10(1)(a) (with art. 3); S.I. 2022/1024, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 48(1B) inserted (1.12.2022) by The Pharmacy (Preparation and Dispensing Errors – Hospital and Other Pharmacy Services) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/851), arts. 1(3), 10(1)(b) (with art. 3); S.I. 2022/1024, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Art. 48(1C)(1D) inserted (7.1.2026) by The Human Medicines (Authorisation by Pharmacists and Supervision by Pharmacy Technicians) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/1249), arts. 1(2)(5)(b), 8(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 48 in force at 10.2.2010 for specified purposes, see art. 1(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Art. 48 in force at 27.9.2010 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2010/1621, art. 2(1), Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2025/1249",
      "affecting_title": "The Human Medicines (Authorisation by Pharmacists and Supervision by Pharmacy Technicians) Order 2025"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/231/article/48",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:54:06.640040+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}