The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 271 No 7279 p820
13 December 2003

Society summary

The Petition (see p826 for the Charter)

TO THE QUEEN’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL

The Humble Petition of the Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (“the Society”) sheweth as follows:

1. Her Majesty Queen Victoria was pleased by Royal Charter dated 18th February 1843 (hereinafter referred to as “the Charter of 1843”) to establish the Society as a body corporate.

2. Your Majesty was pleased by Supplemental Charter dated 19th November 1953 (hereinafter referred to as “the Supplemental Charter of 1953”) to amend and add to the Charter of 1843.

3. The Council of the Society hereby represent that the Society should, for the public benefit, be more appropriately equipped to function as a regulator, to lead the strategic development and policies of the profession of pharmacy, to support the science and practice of pharmacy, and to engage in the wider public debate on health related matters and on the role of pharmacy in contributing to the health of the public.

4. The Council of the Society accordingly pray that Your Majesty might be graciously pleased to revoke the Supplemental Charter of 1953 and to make new provision in respect of the objects, powers and constitution of the Society.

YOUR PETITIONERS therefore most humbly pray that Your Majesty may be graciously pleased in the exercise of Your Royal Prerogative to grant a further Supplemental Charter to the Society in the terms of the draft attached to this Petition or in such other terms as to Your Majesty may seem proper.

AND YOUR PETITIONERS will ever pray etc.

Signed and sealed on behalf of the Council of the Society this third day of December 2003

Gillian M. Hawksworth
President
Alison B. Ewing
Vice President