S.I. No. 97/2017 - Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (Education and Training) (Integrated Course) (Amendment) Rules 2017.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 31st March, 2017.

The Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland, in exercise of the powers conferred on the said Society by section 11 of the Pharmacy Act 2007 (No. 20 of 2007) (as adapted by the Health and Children (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2011 ( S.I. No. 219 of 2011 )), with the consent of the Minister for Health, hereby makes the following rules:

1. (1) These Rules may be cited as the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (Education and Training) (Integrated Course) (Amendment) Rules 2017.

(2) The Principal Rules, Rule 14 of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (Continuing Professional Development) Rules 2015 ( S.I. No. 553 of 2015 ) and these Rules may be cited together as the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (Education and Training) (Integrated Course) Rules 2014 to 2017 and shall be construed together as one.

2. In these Rules “Principal Rules” means the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (Education and Training) (Integrated Course) Rules 2014 ( S.I. No. 377 of 2014 ).

3. Rule 3 of the Principal Rules is amended—

(a) by substituting for the definition of “Act” the following:

“‘Act’ means the Pharmacy Act 2007 (No. 20 of 2007), as amended by the European Communities (Recognition of Professional Qualifications relating to the Profession of Pharmacist) (No. 2) Regulations 2008 ( S.I. No. 489 of 2008 ), the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 (No. 24 of 2010), the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013 (No. 14 of 2013), the Health Identifiers Act 2014 (No. 15 of 2014), the European Union (Amendment of the Pharmacy Act 2007) Regulations 2015 ( S.I. No. 86 of 2015 ) and the Professional Qualification Regulations;”,

(b) by inserting after the definition of “medicinal product” the following definitions:

“‘Professional Qualifications Directive’ has the meaning assigned to ‘Directive’ by Regulation 3(1) of the ‘Professional Qualifications Regulations’;

“‘Professional Qualifications Regulations’ means the European Union (Recognition of Professional Qualifications) Regulations 2017 ( S.I. No. 8 of 2017 );”, and

(c) by inserting after the definition of ‘Registrar’ the following definition:

“‘relevant state’ has the meaning assigned to it by section 16(5) of the Act;”.

4. Rule 23 of the Principal Rules is amended by substituting for paragraph (2) the following:

“(2) Notwithstanding the revocation of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (Education and Training) Rules 2008 ( S.I. No. 493 of 2008 ), those Rules shall continue to apply in respect of persons who commenced, before the coming into operation of these Rules, a course of study under those Rules, leading to the award of a qualification appropriate for practice, save that the Council shall have regard to the provisions of Article 55(a) of the Professional Qualifications Directive and permit a period of professional traineeship, up to a maximum of 4 months of the 12 month in-service practical training programme, to be undertaken in a relevant state other than the State in a pharmacy which is open to the public or in a hospital under the supervision of the hospital’s pharmaceutical department.”.

I, SIMON HARRIS, Minister for Health, consent to the making of the foregoing Rules.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

16 March 2017.

SIMON HARRIS,

Minister for Health.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland,

16 March 2017.

ANN FRANKISH,

President.

NIALL BYRNE,

Registrar.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation).

These Rules amend the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (Education and Training) (Integrated Course) Rules 2014 (S.I. 377 of 2014) to allow persons who commenced, before the coming into operation of those Rules, a course of study under the now revoked Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (Education and Training) Rules 2008, leading to the award of a qualification appropriate for practice, to undertake a 4 month portion of the 12 month in-service practical training programme referred to in Rule 14 of the Rules of 2008 outside the State. They also update certain definitions in the Rules of 2014.

These Rules may be cited as the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (Education and Training) (Integrated Course) (Amendment) Rules 2017.