S.L. 464.12 Art. 42Applications for issue of licence to be laid before Council.

(1) The Registrar shall in any meeting after the receipt of a valid application, lay before the Council all applications for the issue of any licence to practice as a pharmacist and for any registration in any of the registers.

(2) The Council shall verify the information and documentation and if found to be in compliance to the provisions of the Act or these regulations issued thereunder shall instruct the Registrar to:

(a) recommend to the President of Malta for a licence or temporary licence to practice as a pharmacist to be issued;

(b) enter, once the President of Malta has issued a licence or a temporary licence, the particulars of the person accepted for registration in the relevant part of the appropriate register;

(c) enter the particulars of any person accepted for registration to practice as a pharmacy technician in the relevant part of the appropriate register;

(d) enter the name, after an application to that effect by the person concerned, of a pharmacist who is in possession of a specialist qualification according to article 29(4) of the Act;

(e) enter the name of the pharmacist in the corresponding Register for the Special Areas of practice as determined by regulation 38(3).

(3) In dealing with any application submitted to it in accordance with sub-regulations (1) and (2), the time-frames and procedures stipulated by article 42(1) of the Act shall be respected.