Privy Council approves fees for 2006
A proposed scale of fees for members of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in 2006 has been approved by the Privy Council.
The Society’s Council had sought a 4.3 per cent increase in the
standard retention fee for practising pharmacists, from £256 to £267,
and a 25 per cent increase in the normal fee for non-practising pharmacists,
from £46 to £60. The Privy Council has approved these increases,
along with increases of about 3 per cent in most other fees.
Also approved is a reduced fee of £106 for pharmacists outside
England, Scotland or Wales who are not required by local law or practice
to register with the Society. Associated with this concession is a special
provision waiving the restoration fee for overseas pharmacists who chose
to leave the Register when the 2005 fees were introduced. For others
seeking restoration, the fee increases from £494 to £509
for those who were struck off for non-payment of fees or on the direction
of the Statutory Committee and remains at £125 for those who voluntarily
retired from the Register.
Missing from the approved fee scale is a proposed greatly reduced retention
fee for non-practising pharmacists who have been on the Society’s
Register for at least 50 years. The Council agreed in August to seek
such a fee but in October it reluctantly withdrew
its proposal after hearing that Privy
Council advisers had difficulties with it (PJ, 22 October, p529). The Council has reaffirmed its intention
to seek a concession for long-serving members and is to seek acceptable
ways forward for the 2007 retention fee cycle.
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