S.I. No. 274/2017 - Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (Receiving and Recording of Evidence by Committee of Inquiry) Rules 2017.

1. These Rules may be cited as the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (Receiving and Recording of Evidence by Committee of Inquiry) Rules 2017.

2. These Rules shall come into operation on 31 May 2017.

3. A committee of inquiry may receive evidence by means of live-video link or any other mode of transmission which allows the evidence of a witness to be received clearly and in real time from a location other than that in which the hearing of the committee of inquiry is taking place.

4. Where a committee of inquiry proposes to receive evidence in a manner provided for in rule 3, it shall hear any submission as to the appropriateness of such receipt of evidence from—

(

a

) the registered pharmacist,

(

b

) the pharmacy owner or, as the case may be, the representative of that owner, or

(

c

) the registrar,

as applicable, and the committee of inquiry shall make a ruling on each such submission.

5. Any expenses incurred in respect of evidence called pursuant to these Rules by or on behalf of a registered pharmacist or pharmacy owner or, as the case may be, the representative of that owner, the subject of an inquiry by a committee of inquiry, shall be the responsibility of that registered pharmacist or pharmacy owner or, as the case may be, the representative of that owner.

I, Simon Harris, Minister for Health, consent to the making of the foregoing Rules.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

11 May 2017.

SIMON HARRIS,

Minister for Health.

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

12 May 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 made by the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland relate to the receipt of evidence of witnesses by a committee of inquiry by means of live-video link or any other mode of transmission which allows for real time transmission of the evidence of a witness.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

4

th July

, 2017.

The Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland, in exercise of the powers conferred on the said Society by

sections 11

and

43

(4) 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:-