Vol. ii,, No. 6. 
THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST OF AUSTRALASIA. 
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COUNCIL MAY ALTER REGISTER AND ERASE NAMES 
THEREFROM. 
15. The Council may from time to time make the necessary 
alterations in the registration of the qualifications and ad- 
dresses of the persons registered under this Act, 'ind may from 
time to time write, or cause to be written, a letter to any 
registered pharmaceutical chemist addressed to him according 
to his last known address, to inquire whether he has changed 
his residence or place of business, and if no answer be returned 
to such letter within the period of six months from the send- 
ing thereof, the Council may erase the name of such person 
from the Pharmaceutical Begister, and may restore the same 
to such register upon the certified affidavit of such person and 
production of his certificate, or satisfactory proof of his former 
registration. 
NOTICE OF CHANGE OF ADDRESS OR DEATH OP REGIS' 
TERED PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMIST TO BE SENT TO 
COUNCIL. 
16. Every registered pharmaceutical chemist on changing 
his residence or place of business shall intimate the same to i 
the Council, and every Deputy Begistrar appointed under the 
Begistration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Statute or any 
act amending the same on receiving information of the death 
of any registered pharmaceutical chemist shall forthwith 
transmit notice thereof by post to the Begistrar of the Phar- 
maceutical Council in Adelaide, and on receipt of such notice 
the Begistrar shall inform the Council thereof, and the Coun- 
cil shall erase the name of such chemist from the Pharmaceu- 
tical Begister of South Australia, and every such Deputy 
Registrar failing to transmit such notice as aforesaid within 
two months from the date of his receiving information of any 
such death shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding 
five pounds. 
COUNCIL MAY STRIKE NAME OFF REGISTER IN CERTAIN 
CASES. ♦ 
17. If any registered pharmaceutical chemist be convicted of 
any offence under this act, or of any felony which in the 
opinion of the Council renders him unfit to be on the Pharma- 
ceutical Register of South Australia, the Council may, subject 
to the approval of the Governor- in-Council, order the name of 
such person to be erased from such register, and such erasure 
shall be a disqualification as a registered pharmaceutical 
chemist within the meaning of this Act, and it shall be the 
duty of the Council to erase such name accordingly. 
REGISTRAR TO MAKE ANNUAL LIST. 
18. The Council shall in the month of January in each 
year cause to be printed, published, and sold, a correct register 
of the names of all registered pharmaceutical chemists, and 
in such registers respectively the names shall be in alphabeti- 
cal order according to the surnames, with the respective resi- 
dences or places of business of such chemists, and such 
printed register shall be called the “Pharmaceutical Register 
of South Australia” of and for every succeeding year. 
PRINTED REGISTERS TO BE EVIDENCE. 
19. A printed copy of such register for the time being, pur- 
porting to be so printed and published as aforesaid, or a copy 
of the Government Gazette purporting to contain any regula- 
tion made by the Council shall be primo facie evidence in all 
courts of justice and in all legal proceedings whatsoever, that 
the persons specified in such printed register are registered 
according to the provisions of this Act, or that such regula- 
tion is duly made ; and the absence of the name of any person 
from such printed register for the time being shall be evidence, 
until the contrary shall be made to appear, that such person 
is not a registered pharmaceutical chemist. 
Part III. 
Registered Pharmaceutical Chemists. 
QUALIFICATION OF PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTS. 
20. No person shall receive from the Council a certificate 
that he is duly qualified for registration as a registered phar- j 
maceutical chemist unless he shall have obtained the age of I 
twenty-one years, and unless j 
(e) At any time before the date of the commencement of ' 
this Act he shall for not less than two years have ] 
carried on the business of a chemist and druggist or ; 
homcepathic chemist, in the keeping of an open shop ; 
for the compounding and dispensing of prescriptions 
of legally qualified medical practitioners, or unless 
(h) At any time before the date of the commencement of 
this Act, he shall for not less than two years have 
been employed as a dispensing assistant in an open 
shop for the compounding and dispensing of the pre- 
scriptions of legally qualified medical practitioners, 
or unless he shall have been for not less than three 
years employed as a dispensing chemist in a hos- 
pital, benevolent asylum, or other public institution, 
or unless 
(c) He hold a certificate or diploma of competency as a 
pharmaceutical chemist or as a chemist and druggist 
or homoeoj)athic chemist from the Pharmaceutical 
Society of Great Britain, or any college or board of 
pharmacy recognised by the Council under any regu- 
lations made under this Act, or unless 
{d) He shall have served for not less than three years as 
an apprentice in the business of a registered pharma- 
ceutical chemist, or chemist and druggist, or homcco- 
pathic chemist keeping open shop for the compound- 
ing and dispensing of the prescriptions of legally 
qualified medical practitioners, and shall have passed 
examinations before the Council or examiners ap- 
pointed thereby as hereinafter provided in the sub- 
jects of practical pharmacy, chemistry, and any sub- 
ject that may be prescribed by the Council with the 
approval of the Governor-in-Council. Provided 
always that any person having served or serving in 
South Australia a period of not less than three 
years’ apprenticeship whose period of apprenticeship 
shall have commenced three months at least before 
the date of the commencement of this Act, either 
with a chemist and druggist, or with a recognised 
licentiate apothecary, or in a public hospital, shall be 
required to pass such modified examination only as 
the Council may prescribe. 
(e) A certificate of qualification in the form in the Third 
Schedule hereto shall entitle the person named there- 
in, on payment of the proper fee, to be registered 
under this Act at any time within six months after 
the date of such certificate. 
■VVHO MAY BE PRESENT AT EXAMINATIONS. 
21. The Council shall permit any officer, or person ap- 
pointed by the Governor-in-Council, to be present during the 
progress of any examination conducted by the Council. 
No person shall be examined by the Council or by examiners 
appointed thereby, as directed by the next following section, 
until he furnish a statutory declaration by a master chemist in 
the form in the Seven Schedule hereto, or to the like effect of 
his having served the apprenticeship [required in subdivision 
d of section 20.] 
COUNCIL TO CONTROL EXAMINATIONS. 
22. The Council shall have power to control and direct the 
preliminary and ail examinations in practical pharmacy, 
chemistry, botany, and such other subjects as may from time 
to time be approved by the Governor-in-Council and published 
in the regulations of the Council. The Council may grant or 
refuse to such persons certificates of competency, skill, know- 
ledge, and qualification to exercise the business or calling of a 
pharmaceutical chemist. In the case of rejection, a rejected 
candidate may present himself for re-examination after a period 
of six months. 
CERTIFICATES REQUIRED PREVIOUSLY TO REGISTRATION 
23. Every person who desires a certificate of qualification 
for registration under this Act, or to be examined, shall fur- 
nish the Council with a statutory declaration according to the 
I Fourth or Fifth Schedule, or to the like effect. 
I Where a person applies for such certificate under subdivi- 
I sion 3 of section 20, his declaration must be accompanied by 
j the certificates or diplomas on which he bases his application. 
Such certificates or cliplomas shall be returned to the applicant 
by the Council. 
Part IV. — Miscellaneous. 
RESERVING RIGHTS TO CERTAIN PERSONS. 
24. Nothing herein contained shall extend to or interfere 
with the business or with any rights and privileges of any 
legally qualified medical practitioner, or of any member of 
the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons of Great Britain, 
nor with the business of wholesale dealers in supplying drugs 
and chemicals in the ordinary course of wholesale dealing > 
