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THE PHARMACY ACT, 1868. 
certificate under the hand of the said Registrar, and countersigned by 
the President or two Members of the Council of the Pharmaceutical 
Society, shall be evidence in all Courts and before all Justices of the 
Peace and others, that the persons thereiu specified are registered ac¬ 
cording to the provisions of the Pharmacy Act or of this Act, as the 
case may be, and the absence of the name of any person from such 
printed register shall be evidence, until the contrary shall be made 
to appear, that such person is not registered according to the provi¬ 
sions of the Pharmacy Act or of this Act. 
Penalty on 14. Any Registrar who shall wilfully make or cause to be made 
wilful t'alsifi- any falsification in any matter relating to the said registers, and any 
Register" or person who shall wilfully procure or attempt to procure himself to be 
for obtain- registered under the Pharmacy Act or under this Act, by making or 
fcon^vMse producing or causing to be made or produced any false or fraudulent 
repreienta- representation or declaration, either verbally or in writing, and any 
tion. 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. 
Protection 15- Prom and after the 31st day of December, 1868, any person who 
of titles and shall sell, or keep an open shop for the retailing, dispensing, or com- 
o^sakfof 18 P oun( Fng poisons, or who shall take, use, or exhibit the name or title 
poisons. of Chemist and Druggist or Chemist or Druggist, not being a duly 
registered Pharmaceutical Chemist or Chemist and Druggist, or 
who shall take, use, or exhibit, the name or title Pharmaceutical 
Chemist, Pharmaceutist, or Pharmacist, not being a Pharmaceutical 
Chemist, or shall fail to conform with any regulation as to the keep¬ 
ing or selling of poisons, made in pursuance of this Act, or who 
shall compound any medicines of the British Pharmacopoeia, except 
according to the formularies of the said Pharmacopoeia, shall, for every 
such offence, be liable to pay a penalty or sum of five pounds, and the 
same may be sued for, recovered, and dealt with in the manner pro¬ 
vided by the Pharmacy Act for the recovery of penalties under that 
Act; but nothing in this Act contained shall prevent any person 
from being liable to any other penalty, damages, or punishment, to 
which he would have been subject if this Act had not passed. 
Reserving’ 16. Nothing hereinbefore contained shall extend to or interfere 
rightsof cer- -with the business of any legally qualified apothecary 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 ; 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; provided always, that 
registration under this Act shall not entitle any person so registered 
to practise medicine or surgery, or any branch of medicine or surgery, 
ito^be ob 1 - 0113 47. It shall be unlawful to sell any poison, either by wholesale or 
served in the by retail, unless the box, bottle, vessel, wrapper, or cover in which 
