Part 1: Main Provisions Section 5 and Schedule 4: Emergency registration of and extension of prescribing powers for pharmaceutical chemists: Northern Ireland
This section and Schedule amend the Pharmacy (Northern Ireland) Order 1976 (the "1976 Order") to allow the registrar to temporarily enter in the register the name of a pharmacist, or a group of pharmacists when directed by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland that an emergency has occurred or is occurring. This allows people who do not meet the qualifications under the 1976 Order to be registered in an emergency situation at the discretion of the registrar. Groups that could be considered for temporary registration may include pre-registration pharmacists or recently retired pharmacists.
	Provision is also made to allow the registrar to temporarily annotate a pharmacist’s record or the record of a group of pharmacists in the register when directed by the Department of Health that an emergency has occurred or is occurring. The purpose of the annotation would be to extend the power to prescribe certain drugs, medicines and appliances to people who would not be authorised under the 1976 Order.
	The Schedule also provides that certain provisions of the 1976 Order that do not apply to temporary registrations and annotations, can be reapplied to such registrations and annotations by regulations.
	The Schedule removes certain decisions relating to temporary registrations and annotations from the scope of the normal appeal mechanisms under the 1976 Order.
	The territorial extent and application of this section and Schedule is Northern Ireland only.