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(1) Where the Executive Committee reports to the Central Council that an approved course of study or an approved examination does not continue to be in conformity with the Education Regulations, the Central Council shall give notice to the authority concerned of its intention to take into consideration the question of withdrawing the declaration of approval accorded to the course of study or examination, as the case may be, and the said authority shall within three months from the receipt of such notice forward to the Central Council through the State Government such representation in the matter as it may wish to make. (2) After considering any representation which may be received from the authority concerned and any observations thereon which the State Government may think fit to make, the Council may declare that the course of study or the examination shall be deemed to be approved only when completed or passed, as the case may be, before a specified date.

46. Once this is understood, nothing really survives for consideration, and the decision of the PCI to require institutions, who already possess approvals under Section 12(1) for the course(s) of study conducted by them, to apply on an yearly basis for continuation of the approvals, is obviously illegal. Section 12(1) requires the institution which conducts the course of study to apply to the PCI for approval of that course of study. If the PCI is satisfied that the course WP(C) 617/2024 & conn. matters Digitally Signed By:AJIT Page 38 of 70 Digitally Signed KUMAR By:CHANDRASHEKHARAN HARI SHANKAR Signing Date:01.07.2024 Signing Date:01.07.2024 18:50:15 18:52:46 of study is in conformity with the Regulations, it shall declare the course of study to be an approved course of study for the purpose of admission to an approved examination for Pharmacists. Thus, Section 12(1) refers, at all points, to the "course of study" conducted by the institution. The approval is therefore to the course of study, whether one refers to it as a "course" or as a "course of study". In other words, in the case of the petitioner, the approval granted to the petitioner was to its B. Pharm and D. Pharm courses.