572 
THE AMENDED PHARMACY BILL. 
Chemists 
and Drug¬ 
gists within 
meaning of 
Act. 
Apprentices 
and Assis¬ 
tants to be 
registered. 
Chemists 
and Drug¬ 
gists in busi¬ 
ness may be 
registered. 
Examiners 
under Phar¬ 
macy Act to 
be the Exa¬ 
miners un¬ 
der this Act. 
-^Certificate 
ofuompe- 
tent skill, 
etc. 
Application 
of fees to 
purpose of 
P harmaceu- 
tical So¬ 
ciety. 
Registrar 
under Phar¬ 
macy Act to 
be Registrar 
under this 
Act. 
Council of 
Pharmaceu¬ 
tical Society 
to make or¬ 
ders for re¬ 
gulating 
Register to 
be kept. 
Duty of Re- 
ment, the article named in such resolution shall be deemed to be a 
poison within the meaning of this Act. 
3. Chemists and Druggists within the meaning of this Act shall 
consist of all persons who, at any time heretofore, have carried on, in 
Great Britain, the business of a Chemist and Druggist, in the keep¬ 
ing of open shop for the compounding of the prescriptions of duly 
qualified medical practitioners, also of all Assistants and Associates 
duly registered under or according to the provisions of the Pharmacy 
Act, and also of all such persons as may be duly registered under this 
Act. 
4. Any person who, for two years prior to the time of passing 
this Act, shall have been apprenticed to, or who, at the time of the 
passing of this Act, shall be of full age and shall have been actually 
engaged and employed in dispensing and compounding prescriptions, 
as assistant to any Pharmaceutical Chemist, or any such Chemist 
and Druggist as defined by Clause 3 hereof, may, on transmitting to 
the Registrar, before the 31st day of December, 1870, certificates, 
according to the Schedule E to this Act, be registered under this 
Act. 
5. Such of the Chemists and Druggists, defined by Clause 3, as 
may, on or before the 31st day of December, 1870, by notice in 
writing, signed by them, and given to the Registrar, request to be 
registered under this Act, shall, on production of certificates accord¬ 
ing to the Schedules C and D to this Act, be registered accordingly. 
6. All such persons as shall from time to time have been appointed 
to conduct examinations under the Pharmacy Act, shall be, and are 
hereby declared to be examiners for the purposes of this Act, and are 
hereby empowered and required to examine all such persons as shall 
tender themselves for examination under the provisions of this Act, 
and every person who shall have been examined by such examiners, 
and shall have obtained from them a certificate of competent skill 
and knowledge and qualification, shall be entitled to be registered as 
a Chemist and Druggist under this Act, and the examination afore¬ 
said shall be such as is provided under the Pharmacy Act for the pur¬ 
poses of a qualification to be registered as Assistant under that Act, 
or as the same may be varied from time to time by any Bye-law to 
be made in accordance with the Pharmacy Act, with the approbation 
of one of her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State. 
7. Such fees shall be payable upon every such examination and re¬ 
gistration as aforesaid, as shall from time to time be fixed and deter¬ 
mined by any Bye-law, to be made in accordance with the Pharmacy 
Act, with the approbation of one of her Majesty’s principal Secreta¬ 
ries of State, and shall be paid to the Treasurer of the said Society, 
for the purposes of the said Society. 
8. The registrar appointed, or to be appointed, under or by virtue 
of the Pharmacy Act, shall be registrar for the purposes of this 
Act. 
9. The Council of the Pharmaceutical Society shall, with all con¬ 
venient speed, after the passing of this Act, and from time to time, 
as occasion may require, make orders or regulations for regulating 
the register, to be kept under this Act as nearly as conveniently may 
be in accordance with the form set forth in the Schedule B to this 
Act, or to the like effect, and such register shall be called the Register 
of Chemists and Druggists. 
10. It shall be the duty of the Registrar to make and keep a correct 
