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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 it shall be unlawful to sell any poison of 
those which are in the first part of schedule (A) to this Act, or 
may hereafter be added thereto under section 2 of this Act, to any 
person unknown to theseller, unless introduced by some person known 
to the seller, and on every sale of any such article the seller shall, be¬ 
fore delivery, make or cause to be made an entry in a book to be kept 
for that purpose, stating, in the form set forth in schedule (F) to this 
Act, the date of the sale, the name and address of the purchaser, the 
name and quantity of the article sold, and the purpose for which it is 
stated by the purchaser to be required, to which entry the signature 
of the purchaser and of the person, if any, who introduced him, shall 
be affixed ; and any person selling poison otherwise than is herein pro¬ 
vided, shall, upon a summary conviction before two Justices of the 
Peace in England or the Sheriff in Scotland, be liable to a penalty not 
exceeding five pounds for the firstoffence, and to a penalty not exceed¬ 
ing ten pounds for the second or any subsequent offence; and for the 
purposes of this section the person on whose behalf any sale is made by 
any apprentice or servant shall be deemed to be the seller, but the pro¬ 
visions of this section, which are solely applicable to poisons in the 
first part of the schedule (A) to this Act, or which require that the 
label shall contain the name and address of the seller, shall not apply 
to articles to be exported from Great Britain by wholesale dealers, 
nor to sales by wholesale to retail dealers in the ordinary course of 
wholesale dealing, nor shall any of the provisions of this section apply 
to any medicine supplied by a legally qualified apothecary to his 
patient, nor apply to any article when forming part of the ingredients 
of any medicine dispensed by a person registered under this Act, pro¬ 
vided such medicine be labelled in the manner aforesaid with the name 
and address of the seller, and the ingredients thereof be entered, with 
the name of the person to whom it is sold or delivered, in a book to be 
kept by the seller for that purpose, and nothing in this Act contained 
shall repeal or affect any of the provisions of an Act of the Session 
holden in the fourteenth and fifteenth years in the reign of her pre¬ 
sent. Majesty, intituled ‘ An Act to regulate the Sale of Arsenic.’ 
18. Every person who, at the time of the passing of this Act, is or 
has been in business on his own account as a Chemist and Druggist 
as aforesaid, and who shall be registered as a Chemist and Druggist, 
shall be eligible to be elected and continue a member of the Pharmaceu¬ 
tical Society according to the Bye-laws thereof ; but no person shall, 
in right of membership acquired pursuant to this clause, be placed on 
the Register of Pharmaceutical Chemists, nor, save as is hereinafter 
expressly provided, be eligible for election to the Council of the Phar¬ 
maceutical Society. 
19. Every person who is or has been in business on his own account 
as a Chemist and Druggist as aforesaid at the time of the passing of 
this Act, and who shall become a Member of the Pharmaceutical So¬ 
ciety, shall be eligible for election to the Council of the Pharmaceuti¬ 
cal Society ; but the said Council shall not at any time contain more 
than seven Members who are not on the Register of Pharmaceu¬ 
tical Chemists. 
20. Every person who shall have been registered as a Chemist 
and Druggist under this Act, by reason of having obtained a certificate 
of qualification from the Board of Examiners, shall be eligible to be 
Sale of 
Poisons. 
Chemists 
and Drug¬ 
gists in busi¬ 
ness prior to 
passing of 
Act eligible 
for election 
as Members 
of Pharma¬ 
ceutical So¬ 
ciety. 
Council of 
PbarinaccH- 
tieal Society. 
Chemists 
and Drug¬ 
gists regis¬ 
tered oli- 
