THE AMENDED PHARMACY BILL. 
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4. Any person who, at the time of the passing this Act, shall be Assistants 
of full age, and shall produce to the Registrar on or before the 31st :8 ‘ 
day of December, 1868, certificates, according to the Schedule E to 
this Act, that he had been for a period of not less than three years 
actually engaged and employed in the dispensing and compounding 
of prescriptions as an assistant to a Pharmaceutical Chemist, or to 
a Chemist and Druggist as defined by Clause 3 of this Act, shall, on 
passing such a modified examination as the Council of the Pharma¬ 
ceutical Society with the consent of the Privy Council may declare to 
be sufficient evidence of his skill and competency to conduct the busi¬ 
ness of a Chemist and Druggist, be registered as a Chemist and 
Druggist under this Act. 
5. The persons who at the time of the passing of the Act shall have Registration 
been duly admitted Pharmaceutical Chemists, or shall be Chemists of d c ^ emist8 
and Druggists within the meaning of the Act, shall be entitled to be g“ sts> rug ‘ 
registered under the Act without paying any fee for such registra- 
tion : Provided, however, as regards any such Chemist and Druggist, 
that his claim to be registered must be by notice in writing, signed by 
him and given to the Registrar with certificates according to the 
Schedules (C) and (D) to this Act; and provided also, that for any 
such registration of a Chemist and Druggist, unless it be duly claimed 
by him on or before the 31st day of December, 1868, the person regis¬ 
tered shall pay the same fee as persons admitted to the Register after 
examination under this Act. 
6. All such persons as shall from time to time have been appointed Examiners 
to conduct examinations under the Pharmacy Act^, shall be, and are under Phar- 
hereby declared to be examiners for the purposes of this Act, and are b^the^Exa- 
hereby empowered and required to examine all such persons as shall miners un¬ 
tender themselves for examination under the provisions of this Act, der thls Aet - 
and every person who shall have been examined by such examiners, 
and shall have obtained from them a certificate of competent skill Certificate 
and knowledge and qualification, shall be entitled to be registered as tenTskiil" 
a Chemist and Druggist under this Act, and the examination afore- etc. 
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 as amended by this 
Act: provided that no person shall conduct any examination for the 
purposes of this Act until his appointment has been approved by the 
Privy Council; and such appointment and approval shall not in any 
case be in force for more than five years; moreover, it shall be the 
duty of the said Pharmaceutical Society to allow any officer appointed 
by the said Privy Council to be present during the progress of any 
examination held for the purposes of this Act. 
7. Upon every such examination and registration as aforesaid such Application 
fees shall be payable as shall from time to time be fixed and deter- ot fees 
mined by any Bye-law, to be made in accordance with the Pharmacy phTrmaceu- 
Act as amended by this Act, and shall be paid to the Treasurer of the ticalSo- 
said Society for the purposes of the said Society. ciety ' 
8. The registrar appointed, or to be appointed, under or by virtue Registrar 
of the Pharmacy Act, shall be registrar for the purposes of this to" 
Act. be Registrar 
9. The Council of the Pharmaceutical Society shall, with all con- ^° derthl3 
venient speed, after the passing of this Act, and from time to time, council of 
as occasion may require, make orders or regulations for regulating Pharmaceu- 
