Pharmacists (Fitness to Practise) Act 1997

Pharmacists (Fitness to Practise) Act 1997

An Act to make provision about finding registered pharmaceutical chemists unfit to practise due to ill health; and for connected purposes.
[19th March 1997]
Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Fitness to practise
(1) The Schedule (which amends the [1954 c. 61.] Pharmacy Act 1954 for the purposes mentioned below and makes consequential amendments) is to have effect.
(2) Those purposes are—
(a) establishing a new committee of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain,
(b) enabling the committee to consider allegations against registered pharmaceutical chemists of unfitness to practise due to ill health, and
(c) enabling the committee to impose practising conditions on, or suspend from registration, registered pharmaceutical chemists whose ability to practise it finds to be seriously impaired due to ill health.

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