THE AMENDED PHARMACY BILL. 
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elected an Associate of the Pharmaceutical Society, and every such Clause 4 and 
person so elected and continuing as such Associate, being in business gibie^to be 
on his own account, shall have the privilege of attending all meetings elected As- 
of the said Society and of voting thereat, and otherwise taking part bein^in and 
in the proceedings of such meetings, in the same manner as Members business, 
of the said Society; provided always, that such Associates contribute pri * 
to the funds of the said Society the same Fees or Subscriptions as voting hi the 
Members contribute for the time being under the Bye-laws thereof. Society, on 
21. At all meetings of the Pharmaceutical Society at which votes game sub- 6 
shall be given for the election of officers, all or any of the votes may scriptions as 
be given either personally or by voting-papers, in a form to be de- Members, 
fined in the Bye-laws of the said Society, or in a form to the like v ° tl ^" for 
effect, such voting-papers being transmitted under cover to the Secre- election of 
tary, not less than one clear day prior to the day on which the election Council. 
is to take place. 
22. And whereas by the Charter of Incorporation of the said Benevolent 
Pharmaceutical Society it is provided that the Council of the said So- ^amiied to 
ciety shall have the sole control and management of the real and per- P a S aP Mem- ° 
sonal property of the said Society, subject to the Bye-laws thereof, and bers and As- 
sliall make provision thereout, or out of such part thereof as they shall to^harma- 0 
think proper for the relief of the distressed Members or Associates of ceutical Che- 
the said Society, and their widows and orphans, subject to the regula- mists and ra¬ 
tions and Bye-laws of the said Society. And whereas, for extending chemists 
the benefits which have resulted from the said provision in the said and Drug- 
Charter of Incorporation, it is desirable that additional power should glsts ‘ 
be granted to the said Council, be it enacted that from and after the 
passing of this Act, the said Council may make provision out of the 
real and personal property aforesaid, and out of any special fund, 
known as the Benevolent Fund, not only for the relief of the dis. 
tressed Members or Associates of the said Society and their widows 
and orphans, subject to the said regulations and Bye-laws, but also 
for all persons who may have been and have ceased to be Members or 
Associates of the said Society, or who may be or have been duly re¬ 
gistered as “ Pharmaceutical Chemists ” or u Chemists and Druggists,” 
and the widows and orphans of such persons, subject to the regula¬ 
tions and Bye-laws of the said Society. 
23. Persons registered under ‘ The Medical Act ’ shall not be or Registration 
continue to be registered under this Act. dfca^Act 6 " 
24. The provisions of the Act of the twenty-third and twenty- Adulteration 
fourth of Victoria, chapter eighty-four, intituled “ An Act for Pre- of Food or 
venting the Adulteration of Articles of Food or Drink,” shall extend ^teniU) *° 
to all articles usually taken or sold as medicines, and every adultera- Medicines, 
tion of any such article shall be deemed an admixture injurious to 
health ; and any person registered under this Act, who sells any such 
article adulterated, shall, unless the contrary be proved, be deemed 
to have knowledge of such adulteration. 
25. On and after the passing of this Act, all powers vested by the Acts of 
Pharmacy Act in one of her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State, council 
shall be vested in the Privy Council, and the seventh section of the 
Public Health Act, 1858, shall apply to all proceedings and acts of 
the Privy Council herein authorized. 
26. The Privy Council may direct the name of any person who is Power to 
convicted of any offence against this Act, which, in their opinion, fromRegis- 
renders him unfit to be on the register under this Act, to be erased ter. 
from such register; and it shall be the duty of the registrar to erase 
the same accordingly. 
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