Pharmacy Bill 2007

Public bill · Government · Presented

The Pharmacy Bill 2007 would replace outdated pharmacy laws and create a new Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland focused on protecting the public and maintaining professional standards. It would introduce registers for pharmacists and pharmacies, set rules for running pharmacy businesses, and create stronger inspection, complaints and disciplinary procedures, including possible restrictions, suspension or cancellation of registration. A majority of the Society’s 21-person council would represent the public, with updated arrangements for pharmacists qualified in other countries.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to make new provision for the regulation of pharmacy, including provision for the dissolution of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland and the setting up of a new Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland, for the establishment, constitution and functions of the new society's council, for a new system of registration of qualified pharmacists, druggists and pharmaceutical assistants and of pharmacies, for the creation of certain offences relating to pharmacy and for the setting up of new procedures to ensure that pharmacists are and continue to be fit to practise; and to provide for related matters

Last updated 16 April 2018