THE PHARMACY ACT, 1868 . 
121 
“ Pharmacy. 
“ To recognize the Preparations of the Pharmacopoeia which are not of a 
definite Chemical Nature, such as Extracts, Tinctures, and Powders, and give 
the proportions of the more active ingredients.” 
AN ACT TO REGULATE THE SALE OE POISONS, AND ALTER 
AND AMEND THE PHARMACY ACT, 1852. 
[31^ July, 1868.] 
Whereas it is expedient for the safety of the public that persons 
keeping open shop for the retailing, dispensing, or compounding of 
poisons, and persons known as Chemists and Druggists, should pos¬ 
sess a competent practical knowledge of their business, and to that 
end, that from and after the day herein named all persons not already 
engaged in such business should, before commencing such business, 
be duly examined as to their practical knowledge, and that a re¬ 
gister should be kept as herein provided, and also that the Act 
passed in the 1.5th and 16th years of the reign of her present Majesty, 
intituled “ An Act for Regulating the Qualification of Pharmaceutical is & 1G Viet. 
Chemists,” hereinafter described as the Pharmacy Act, should be c> 56 - 
amended: be it enacted, by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, by 
and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal 
and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by authority 
of the same, as follows :— 
1. From and after the 31st day of December, 1868, it shall be un- Persons 
lawful for any person to sell or keep open shop for retailing, dispens- command 
ing, or compounding poisons, or to assume or use the title “ Chemist iu K poisons, 
and Druggist ” or Chemist or Druggist, or Pharmacist, or Dispens- ££ assuming 
ing Chemist, or Druggist, in any part of Great Britain, unless chemist and 
such person shall be a Pharmaceutical Chemist, or a Chemist and Druggist, 
Druggist within the meaning of this Act, and be registered under this qual1 ' 
Act, and conform to such regulations as to the keeping, dispensing, 
and selling of such poisons as may from time to time be prescribed by 
the Pharmaceutical Society with the consent of the Privy Council. 
2. The several articles named or described in the schedule (A) shall Articles 
be deemed to be Poisons within the meaning of this Act, and the schedule 1 (A; 
Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (hereinafter to be deemed 
referred to as the Pharmaceutical Society) may from time to time, ^hinthe 
by resolution, declare that any article in such resolution named ought meaning of 
to be deemed a poison within the meaning of this Act; and thereupon this Act. 
the said Society shall submit the same for the approval of the Privy 
Council, and if such approval shall be given, then such resolution 
and approval shall be advertised in the “ London Gazette,” and 
on the expiration of one month from such advertisement 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 Chemists 
consist of all persons who, at any time before the passing of this Act, gj^V^ithin 
have carried on, in Great Britain, the business of a Chemist and meaning of 
Druggist, in the keeping of open shop for the compounding of the this Act - 
prescriptions of duly qualified medical practitioners, also of all As¬ 
sistants and Associates who, before the passing of this Act, shall have 
been duly registered under or according to the provisions of the Phar¬ 
macy Act, and also of all such persons as may be duly registered under 
this Act. 
