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1Fitness 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.