PART 4Registration

Pre-entry requirements in respect of qualifications and additional education, training or experience: pharmacy techniciansI1I222

1

For the purposes of article 20(1)(a)(i), a person (“T”) is “appropriately qualified” as a pharmacy technician if—

a

T has a qualification awarded in Great Britain which has been approved by the Council as attesting to a standard of proficiency for the safe and effective practice of pharmacy that, in the Council’s opinion, it is necessary for a person to achieve in order to be entered in Part 2 of the Register; F3or

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c

T has, elsewhere than in Great Britain, undergone training as a pharmacy technician, and—

i

holds a qualification which has been approved by the Council as attesting to a standard of proficiency for the safe and effective practice of pharmacy that, in the Council’s opinion, it is necessary for a person to achieve in order to be entered in Part 2 of the Register, F5...

F2ia

holds a qualification which was granted in a relevant European State and, despite its not having been approved under paragraph (i), attests, in the opinion of the Council, to a comparable standard of proficiency to that attested to by a qualification approved under paragraph (1)(a), or

ii

holds a qualification which—

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F7... taken together with the additional education, training or experience that the Registrar requires T to undertake pursuant to article 20(1)(a)(iii), indicates that T has met the standard of proficiency for the safe and effective practice of pharmacy that, in the Council’s opinion, it is necessary for a person to achieve in order to be entered in Part 2 of the Register.

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The Council may determine that a specified state qualification is not evidence of having reached a standard of proficiency comparable to that evidenced by a qualification approved under paragraph (1)(a) only where one or more of Conditions 1 to 3 are met.

1B

Condition 1 is met where there exists a substantial difference between the standard of proficiency evidenced by the specified state qualification and the standard of proficiency for the safe and effective practice of pharmacy that, in the Council’s opinion, it is necessary for a person to achieve in order to be entered in Part 2 of the Register;

1C

Condition 2 is met where the professional activities to which a qualification approved under paragraph (1)(a) relates include one or more professional activities that cover substantially different matters from those covered by the specified state qualification.

1D

Condition 3 is met where requiring a person who holds a specified state qualification to take an aptitude test or to successfully complete an adaptation period, or to do both, would amount to requiring the person to acquire a qualification approved under paragraph (1)(a).

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