Then and now -seeking a new Charter

摘要

Let us start with two obvious facts: first, that the Royal Pharmaceutical Society has only one Charter, the Charter granted in 1953 and still in operation; second, that this Charter does not contain a single reference to regulation or the regulatory role. You may read the Charter from beginning to end, but no mention whatever of regulation, whether as a purpose, function, power or object, will be found. Although the Statutory Committee had been in existence for 20 years before the 1953 Charter was granted, neither the committee itself nor its disciplinary function is mentioned.