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name, title, addition, or description imply¬ 
ing that he is registered under this Act, 
or that he is recognized by law as a phy¬ 
sician, or surgeon, or licentiate in medicine 
and surgery, or a practitioner in med cine, 
or an apothecary, shall, upon a summary 
conviction for any such offence, pay a sum 
not exceeding twenty pounds. 
XLVIII. It shall, notwithstanding any¬ 
thing herein contained, be lawful for her 
Majesty, by Charter, to grant to the Royal 
College of Surgeons of England power to 
institute and hold examinations for the 
purpose of testing the fitness of persons to 
practise as dentists who may be desirous 
of being so examined, and to grant certi¬ 
ficates of such fitness. 
LV. Nothing in this Act contained shall 
extend or be construed to extend to pre¬ 
judice or in any way to affect the lawful 
occupation, trade, or business of chemists 
and druggists and dentists, or the rights, 
privileges, or employment of duly licensed 
apothecaries in Ireland , so far as the same 
extend to selling, compounding, or dis¬ 
pensing medicines. 
medicine, doctor, surgeon, medical or ge¬ 
neral practitioner, or surgeon apothecary 
or accoucheur, or licentiate or practitioner 
in midwifery, or any other medical or sur¬ 
gical name or title, and any unregistered 
person so offending shall forteit and pay a 
sum of not exceeding £20, to be recovered 
in a summary way before the Justices of 
the Peace. 
Sect. XLVIII.—Amend by introducing 
the words “ Ireland and the Faculty of 
Physicians and Suryeonsf after England. 
Sect. LV.—Omit the words “ Chemists, 
Druggists, and.” 
A Section to the following effect to be 
added:— 
Sect. LVI.—It shall not he lawful for 
any person to keep open shop for the com¬ 
pounding of physicians’ and surgeons’ pre¬ 
scriptions, unless he be a licentiate of the 
Apothecaries’ Hall of England or Ireland, 
or shall have received a certificate of com¬ 
petency to compound medicine from either 
of the above bodies, or from the Pharma¬ 
ceutical Society, or from some other body 
duly authorized in England, Ireland, or 
Scotland, by the General Medical Council, 
to institute the necessary examination, and 
to grant such certificate, and at such rate 
of fee as the General Medical Council, 
with the approval of the Privy Council, 
may sanction: and any person keeping 
open shop for the -compounding of medi¬ 
cine, unless qualified as aforesaid, shall, 
upon a summary conviction for any such 
olience before any Justice of the Peace, 
pay a sum not exceeding £20. And for 
the better protection of the public, and to 
ensure the carrying out of the provisions 
as aforesaid, it is hereby enacted that the 
Medical Council may appoint from time to 
time one inspector for England, one for 
Ireland, and one for Scotland, whose duties 
it shall be to inspect, us often as may be 
required, ail shops where medicines are 
compounded, and to carry into effect the 
provisions of this Act in regard to such 
shops; and that such inspectors be paid 
such salaries out of the Consolidated Fund 
