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THE AMENDED PHARMACY BILL. 
Reserving 
rights of cer¬ 
tain persons. 
Poisons to 
be distinctly 
labelled. 
Penalty on 
omissions. 
Registered 
persons ex¬ 
empt from 
J uries. 
Chemists 
and Drug¬ 
gists in busi¬ 
ness prior to 
passing of 
Act eligible 
for election 
as Members 
of Pharma¬ 
ceutical So¬ 
ciety. 
Apprentices 
and Assist¬ 
ants eligible 
for election 
as Associ¬ 
ates. 
Council of 
Pharmaceu¬ 
tical Society. 
vered in the manner provided by the Pharmacy Act for the recovery 
of penalties under that Act, and shall be dealt with as the Commis¬ 
sioners of her Majesty’s Treasury shall direct. 
16. Nothing hereinbefore contained shall extend to interfere with 
the business of any duly qualified medical practitioner or of any mem¬ 
ber of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons of Great Britain, nor 
with the making or dealing in patent medicines, nor with the business 
of wholesale dealers in supplying poisons to retail dealers in the ordi¬ 
nary course of wholesale dealing, nor with the retailing of poisons for 
use in manufactures or photography ; and upon the decease of any 
Pharmaceutical Chemist or Chemist and Druggist actually in business 
at the time of his death, it shall be lawful for any executor, adminis¬ 
trator, or trustee of the estate of such Pharmaceutical Chemist or 
Chemist and Druggist to continue such business if and so long only 
as such business shall be bond fide conducted by a duly qualified as¬ 
sistant, and a duly qualified assistant within the meaning of this 
clause shall be a Pharmaceutical Chemist or a Chemist and Druggist 
registered by the Registrar under the Pharmacy Act or this Act. 
17. It shall not be lawful to sell, give, or deliver any poison, either 
wholesale or by retail, or in a solid or liquid state, unless the box, 
bottle, vessel, wrapper, or cover in which such poison is contained be 
distinctly labelled with the name of the article and the word poison, 
and with the name and address of the seller, giver, or deliverer of the 
poison, and any seller, giver, or deliverer of any poison not so dis¬ 
tinctly labelled, shall, upon a summary conviction before two Justices 
of the Peace in England or the Sheriff in Scotland, be liable to a 
penalty not exceeding £5 for the first offence, and to a penalty not 
exceeding £10 for the second offence, and for the purposes of this 
clause the person on whose behalf any sale is made by any apprentice 
or servant shall be deemed to be the seller, but the provisions of 
this clause shall not apply to articles to be exported from Great 
Britain. 
18. All persons registered under this Act shall be exempt from ser¬ 
vice on juries. 
19. Every person who, at the time of the passing of this Act, is or 
has been in business on his own account as a Chemist and Druggist, 
as aforesaid, and who shall be registered as a Chemist and Druggist, 
shall be eligible to be elected and continue a member of the Pharmaceu¬ 
tical Society according to the bye-laws thereof ; but no person shall, 
in right of membership acquired pursuant to this clause, be placed on 
the Register of Pharmaceutical Chemists, nor, save as is hereinafter 
expressly provided, be eligible for election to the Council of the Phar¬ 
maceutical Society, and every Apprentice and Assistant, as described 
in clause 4 of this Act who shall cause his name to be registered, as 
provided in that clause, shall be eligible to be elected and continue 
an Associate of the Pharmaceutical Society, according to the bye¬ 
laws thereof. 
20. Every person who is or has been in business on his own account 
as a Chemist and Druggist as aforesaid at the time of the passing of 
this Act, and who shall become a Member of the Pharmaceutical So¬ 
ciety, shall be eligible for election to the Council of ihe Pharmaceu¬ 
tical Society ; but the said Council shall not at any time contain more 
than seven Members who are not on the Register of the Pharmaceu¬ 
tical Chemists, nor more than seven Members who shall not at the 
time of election bond fide reside within twelve miles by highway or 
road from the General Post-Office in St. Martin’s-le-Grand 
