1. These Rules may be cited as the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (Registration) Rules 2007 and shall come into force on 30th March 2007.
2.—(1) In these Rules—
“Criminal Records Bureau” means the body established under Part V of the Police Act 1997(2);
“Fitness to Practise Rules” means the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (Fitness to Practise and Disqualification etc.) Rules 2007(3);
“the Order” means the Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Order 2007;
“prescribed fee” means a fee prescribed in rules under article 40(1) of the Order;
“registered address” shall be construed in accordance with rule 5(4);
“registered name” shall be construed in accordance with rule 5(3);
“retention fee”, unless the context otherwise requires, means any fee prescribed in rules under article 40(1)(b) of the Order; and
“the standards” means the standards of conduct, practice and performance (including the Society’s Code of Ethics and the related guidance) published by the Council under article 45(1) of the Order.
(2) Pending the coming into force of article 21 of the Order, these Rules shall apply as if references to the register, applicants and registrants were references only to the Register of Pharmacists, applicants for registration in that register and registered pharmacists respectively.
3.—(1) Any notice, demand or document required to be served by the Society under these Rules shall be in writing and shall be served by sending it by a postal service or another delivery service (including by electronic mail) or by leaving it at—
(a) in the case of a registrant, subject to paragraph (2), the address of the registrant that appears in the register or any electronic mail address of the registrant that the registrant has notified to the Society as an address for communications; or
(b) in the case of an applicant who is not a registrant, his last known home address or any electronic mail address of the applicant that the applicant has notified to the Society as an address for communications.
(2) If the registrant or applicant so requests, notices, demands or documents may be sent to or left at—
(a) where the registrant or applicant is represented by a solicitor, the solicitor’s practising or electronic mail address; or
(b) where the registrant or applicant is represented by a defence organisation or trade union, the business or electronic mail address of that defence organisation or trade union.
(3) Where any notice, demand or document is sent by post, it shall be treated (unless sent by second class post) as having been served on the day after it was posted, or where a notice, demand or document has been sent by electronic mail or left at an address, it shall be treated as having been served on the day at which it was sent to, or left at, that address.
(4) A notice of appeal given under article 43(1) of the Order shall be delivered by sending it to the Registrar at the Society’s headquarters by a postal or courier service in the course of which receipt is recorded.
4.—(1) The register shall be maintained and kept—
(a) secure, in a manner which guards against falsification; and
(b) in electronic format (a copy, together with additional information, may be held by the Registrar, otherwise than electronically).
(2) The Registrar is responsible for ensuring that an entry appears in the register in respect of each person who is newly registered or newly restored to the register(4).
(3) Before making alterations to any of the particulars in a registrant’s entry, the Registrar shall satisfy himself as to the accuracy of any new information to be entered in the register, and may require the registrant concerned to produce a statutory declaration, a marriage certificate or such other documentary evidence as the Registrar may consider appropriate in any case.
(4) Where the Health or Disciplinary Committee determines that a registrant’s fitness to practise is impaired, the Registrar shall annotate that registrant’s entry in the register with a record of the determination.
(5) Where the Disciplinary Committee gives a direction that a person be removed from the register, the Registrar shall ensure that an appropriate alteration is made to the register removing that person from it (once the direction has taken effect).
(6) Where a fitness to practise committee—
(a) issues a warning to a registrant;
(b) agrees undertakings with a registrant that relate to his fitness to practise;
(c) gives a direction that a registrant be suspended from the register (including a direction imposing an interim suspension order), or gives a direction amending that direction; or
(d) gives a direction that a registrant’s registration be conditional on his compliance with specified requirements (including a direction imposing an order for interim conditional registration), or gives a direction amending that direction,
the Registrar shall ensure that an appropriate alteration to the register is made to record that warning, undertaking, direction or amending direction (in the case of directions, once that direction has taken effect).
5.—(1) The register shall, in respect of each person who is entered in the register, contain the following information—
(a) the registrant’s title (including fellowship of the Society);
(b) name under which the registrant is known professionally;
(c) the registrant’s registration number;
(d) the registrant’s home address;
(e) the date of first, and any subsequent, registration; and
(f) any specialisations approved by the Council in accordance with rules made under the Order.
(2) The Registrar may disclose the information referred to in paragraph (1)(a) to (c), (e) and (f) that does not appear in the lists published in accordance with article 30(2) of the Order to—
(a) an employer of a registrant; or
(b) any other person, if he considers it to be in the public interest to do so.
(3) The name included in the register in accordance with paragraph (1)(b) is the “registered name” of the registrant for the purpose of these Rules.
(4) The address included in the register in accordance with paragraph (1)(d) is the “registered address” of the registrant for the purpose of these Rules.
(5) The Registrar shall only record a title to be included in the register by virtue of paragraph (1)(a) (other than Mr, Mrs, Miss or Ms) where he is satisfied as to the authenticity of the title claimed.