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THE AMENDED PHARMACY BILL. 
Penalty on 
wilt'ul falsifi¬ 
cation of 
Register, or 
for obtain¬ 
ing registra¬ 
tion by false 
representa¬ 
tion. 
Protection 
of titles and 
restrictions 
on sale of 
poisons. 
Reserving 
rights of cer¬ 
tain persons. 
Poisons to 
be distinctly 
labelled. 
Penalty on 
omissions. 
to appear, that such person is not registered according to the provi¬ 
sions of the Pharmacy Act or of this Act. 
14. Any Registrar who shall wilfully make or cause to be made 
any falsification in any matter relating to the said registers, and any 
person who shall wilfully procure or attempt to procure himself to be 
registered under the Pharmacy Act or under this Act, by making or 
producing or causing to be made or produced any false or fraudulent 
representation or declaration, either verbally or in writing, and any 
person aiding or assisting him therein, shall be deemed guilty of a 
misdemeanour in England, and in Scotland of a crime or offence 
punishable by fine or imprisonment, and shall on conviction thereof 
be sentenced to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding twelve 
months. 
15. From and after the 31st day of December, 1838, any person 
keeping an open shop for the retailing, dispensing, or compounding 
poisons, or who shall take, use, or exhibit the name or title of 
Chemist and Druggist or Chemist or Druggist, not being a duly 
qualified Pharmaceutical Chemist or a Chemist and Druggist, or 
who shall take, use, or exhibit, the name or title Pharmaceutical 
Chemist or Pharmaceutist or Pharmacist, not being a Pharmaceutical 
Chemist, shall, for every such offence, be liable to pay a penalty or 
sum of £5, and the same may be sued for, recovered, and dealt with 
in the manner provided by the Pharmacy Act for the recovery of 
penalties under that Act. 
16. Nothing hereinbefore contained shall extend to or 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 in the ordinary course of 
wholesale dealing, nor with the retailing of arsenic, oxalic acid, cya¬ 
nide of potassium, or corrosive sublimate, for use in manufactures 
or photography ; and upon the decease of any Pharmaceutical Che¬ 
mist or Chemist and Druggist actually in business at the time of his 
death, it shall be lawful for any executor, administrator, 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 Assistant, and a duly 
qualified assistant, within the meaning of this clause, shall be a Phar¬ 
maceutical Chemist or a Chemist and Druggist registered by the Re¬ 
gistrar under the Pharmacy Act or this Act. 
17. It shall not be lawful to sell any poison, either wholesale or by 
retail, 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 of 
the poison and any seller of any poison not so distinctly 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 ex¬ 
ceeding £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, so far 
as regards the name and address of the seller, shall not apply to 
articles to be exported from Great Britain by wholesale dealers, and 
nothing in this Act contained shall repeal or affect any of the provi¬ 
sions of an Act of the Session holden in the fourteenth and fifteenth 
