New Council agrees to leave Charter petition with Privy Council pending further discussion this month
Council plans further discussions on modernisation |
The new Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society has agreed to leave the petition for a new Charter with the Privy Council pending further consideration by Council later this month.
A motion to this effect was unanimously passed at the June Council meeting
this week. The motion was one of six proposed by Council member Nicholas
Wood that addressed
modernisation of the Society (PJ, 5 June, p695).
Following a long debate, it was agreed to amend the motion so that it
no longer directed the immediate withdrawal of the old Council’s
petition for a new Charter. The amended motion read: “That the
Secretary and Registrar be directed to inform the Privy Council forthwith
that, without prejudicing the Council’s ability to withdraw its
petition, the Council wishes to submit further changes to its draft charter
for a new Royal Charter [sic] following further consideration by the
Council and members of the Society generally.” The amended motion
was passed on the understanding that the Council could still withdraw
the petition at a later date.
As a result, some other decisions were delayed and will not be taken
until after a Council strategy day about modernisation to be held on
30 June. As a result, three of Mr Wood’s motions (numbers three,
four and five) were left lying on the table. They will be considered
at a special Council meeting to be held at the end of the strategy day.
Of the remainder,
motion two — which requested that a committee is set up to establish
the Government’s requirements with regards to the regulatory function
of the Society — was passed. However, it was decided that the Society’s
office would be asked to research this before the strategy day when it
would be decided if a committee was still needed.
Motion six, which addressed the legal action taken by the Save Our Society
group, was withdrawn by Mr Wood without debate.
The Council also agreed to leave a motion proposed by Mark Walker, from
Oxford, at this year’s annual general meeting of the Society lying
on the table. Mr Walker’s motion was a request for the Society
to endorse a petition to the Privy Council seeking
the rejection of the
Council’s draft Charter (PJ, 22 May, p652).
A full report of the Council meeting will appear in next week’s Journal. |
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