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THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST OF AUSTRALASIA 
June 1, 1887. 
Draft Copy of Proposed Pharmacy Act of South Australia. 
AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A PHABMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OE SOUTH AUSTliALlA, AND TO ALTER, AMEND 
OR RESCIND THE SALE OF POISONS ACT OF 1862. 
The following proposed Act was read for the first time, by the President (W. H. Harrison) of the Pharmaceutical Society of 
South Australia, before a full meeting of members on May 10, 1887, and it was resolved that another meeting be called to 
discuss the printed copy of the same on Thursday, the 19th inst., members are therefore requested to attend, or communi- 
cate by lettsr to the President on the subject. 
PREAMBLE. 
1. Whereas it is desirable to make better provision for pre- 
venting unqualified persons from representing themselves to 
be competent to ijractise as dispensing chemists and druggists 
or pharmaceutical chemists, and whereas the unrestricted 
sale of poisons often leads to fatal accidents and the com- 
mission of crime, and whereas large quantities of arsenic, 
strychnine, and other poisons are used in the colony for pas- 
toral, agricultural and other purposes and fatal accidents 
occur by reason of the careless custody and use of such poisons 
by the owners thereof, and whereas it is expedient for the 
safety of the public to regulate the sale of poisons and to make 
provision for the exercise of proper precautions in the use of 
the same, the act passed in the twenty-fifth and twenty- 
sixth year of the reign of Her present Majesty intituled an 
Act to regulate the sale of certain Poisons, known as the Sale 
of Poisons Act of 1802, shall be rescinded. Be it therefore 
enacted by the Queen’s most excellent Majesty, by and with 
the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House 
of Assembly of South Australia, in this present Parliament 
assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows, that 
is to say : — 
SHORT TITLE. 
2. This Act may be cited as the Pharmacy and Sale and Use 
of Poisons Act. 
COMMENCEMENT. 
4. This Act shall come into operation on the first day of 
January. 
It is divided into parts as follows : — 
Part I. The Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of 
South Australia. 
Part II. The Pharmaceutical Register of South Aus- 
tralia. 
Part III. Registered Pharmaceutical Chemists. 
Part IV. Miscellaneous. 
Part V. Sale and Use of Poisons. 
INTERPRETATION OF CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS. 
4. Chemists .and Druggists within the meaning of this Act 
shall consist of all persons who for two years before the pass- 
ing of this Act have carried on, in South Australia, 
the business of a chemist and druggist, in the keeping 
of open shop for the compounding of the prescriptions of duly 
qualified medical practitioners, and also of all such persons 
as may be duly registered under this Act. 
APPOINTMENT OF COUNCIL. 
5. Subject to the provisions of this Act the Governor-in- 
Council may appoint a Board or Council, consisting of a Pre- 
sident, and six other members under the style of “ The 
Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of South Australia,” 
hereinafter in this Act termed “The Council.” 
TERM OP OFFICE. 
6. No person shall be elected or appointed President or 
Member for more than three years, but shall be eligible for 
re-election or re-appointment. 
FIRST PRESIPENT AND MEMBERS. 
7. The first President and other six Members of the Council 
shall be appointed by the Governor-in-Council, provided that 
no person shall be so appointed who is not eligible for regis- 
tration as a registered pharmaceutical chemist ; such Presi- 
dent and Members shall be appointed for a period of three 
years. If any vacancy occur in the Council during such period 
the members of the Pharmaceutical Society of South Australia 
may elect thereto any registered pharmaceutical chemist, and 
the person so appointed shall hold office until the expiration 
of three years from the date of the a23pointment of the first 
members of the Council under this Act, and no longer. 
PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS AFTER THREE YEARS. 
8. At the expiration of the period for which the first Presi- 
dent and members of the Council shall be appointed to hold 
office, no person shall be a member of the Council unless he 
be a registered jhiarmaceutical chemist, and unless he shall 
have been elected to act as a member of the Council by the 
registered pharmaceutical chemists of South Australia. And 
no person shall be appointed as president unless he be a mem- 
ber of the Council and shall have been elected by the other 
members to act as president. Every election shall be held in 
manner prescribed by Regulations to be made by the Council 
subject to the approval of the Governor-iu-Council. 
QUORUM. 
9. A quorum of the Council shall consist of not less than 
three members thereof, and in the absence of the President 
from any meeting of the Council, one of the members present 
shall be elected chairman of that meeting. 
COUNCIL MAY APPOINT OFFICERS. 
10. The Council may from time to time appoint a Registrar 
and any other officers whom they may require for the purposes 
of this Act and shall have power to remove the same at any 
time. 
COUNCIL MAY MAKE REGULATIONS. 
11. The Council may from time to time make, alter, or res- 
cind Regulations for the purpose of carrying this Act into ef- 
fect. Such Regulations shall not have any effect if they be 
repugnant to any law in force in South Australia, or to the 
provisions of this Act, nor until they shall have been con- 
firmed by the Governor-iu-Council and published in the Go- 
vernment Gazette. 
EXAMINATION OF PERSONS AND WITNESSES. 
12. The President or Council may question any person who may 
attend before him or the Council, and any witness who may 
be produced before the President or Council, and may examine 
any persons upon oath, or take a solemn declaration for such 
persons, and if any person shall wilfully, knowingly, or 
corruptly make any false statement upon such examination 
or in such declaration, or shall utter or attempt to utter or 
put off, as true, before the President or Council any false, 
forged, or counterfeit diploma, degree, licence, certificate or 
other document or writing, he shall be guilty of a mis- 
demeanour, and being thereof duly convicted, he shall be liable 
to be imprisoned for any period not exceeding one year. 
Part II. 
The Pharmaceutical Register of South Australia. 
REGISTER. 
13. The Council shall from time to time cause the names 
of all persons certified by the Council as duly qualified for 
registration as registered Pharmaceutical Chemists, to be 
registered with their residences and qualifications in a book 
to be kept by the Council for that purpose, in the form in the 
first Schedule to this Act, or to the like effect, and such 
register shall be called “The Pharmaceutical Register of 
South Australia.” All persons, so long as their names 
continue to be enrolled in such register, may be described, in 
this or any other Act or any regulations, as “Registered 
Pharmaceutical Chemist.” 
FEES TO BE PAID— SECOND SCHEDULE. 
14. Previously to registration or examination under this 
Act, such fees shall be payable as are set out in the second 
Schedule to this Act, or such other fees or annual subscription 
as may from time to time be fixed and determined by any 
regulations hereafter made by the Council in accordance with 
this Act, and the said fees shall be paid to the registrar of the 
Council, for the purposes of this Act, 
