Subsection 1: Jurisdiction of Disciplinary Boards of First Instance

The competent disciplinary chamber is that of the regional or central council in whose area of jurisdiction the pharmacist or professional company being prosecuted is registered on the roll on the date on which the acts complained of occurred. The same applies if the pharmacist or professional company being prosecuted is not entered on the roll but was at the date of the acts. When the complaint is directed against…

Where two or more Disciplinary Boards of First Instance are simultaneously seised of separate but related applications that normally fall within their respective jurisdictions, each of the presidents concerned shall refer the matter to the president of the National Disciplinary Board and send him or her the application file. The presidents of the Disciplinary Divisions of first instance hearing the other claims shall be notified of the referral order and…

When a Disciplinary Board receives a complaint or an application that it considers falls within the jurisdiction of another Disciplinary Board, its Chairman shall forward the file to that Board without delay, in a non-reasoned order that is not subject to appeal and does not have the force of res judicata. However, the Chairman shall be competent to reject complaints or applications that are manifestly inadmissible and cannot be remedied…