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THE PHARMACY ACT, IS64. 
Chemists and 
Druggists in bu¬ 
siness in Great 
Britain before 
1st January, 
1865, entitled to 
be registered as 
Chemists and 
Druggists. 
Assistants may 
be registered as 
“ Assistants” 
under Pharmacy 
Act. 
Assistants and 
Associates under 
Pharmacy Act 
may become 
Chemists and 
Druggists, and so 
registered on 
commencing 
business. 
Council of Phar¬ 
maceutical So¬ 
ciety to make 
Orders for regu¬ 
lating Registers 
to be kept. 
Duty of Regis¬ 
trar to make and 
keep correct 
Registers. 
Evidence of 
qualification to 
be given before 
registration. 
4. Any person who, before the passing of this Act, has been, or who, 
on the 1st day of January, 18G5, shall be actually carrying on business in 
Great Britain as a chemist and druggist, in the keeping of open shop for 
the compounding of the prescriptions of duly qualified medical practi¬ 
tioners, shall, on payment of a fee not exceeding One Guinea, to be fixed 
by the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, be en¬ 
titled to be registered on producing to the Begistrar a declaration accord¬ 
ing to the form in the Schedule B. to this Act, signed by him, and also 
a declaration according to the form in the Schedule C. to this Act, signed 
by a duly qualified medical practitioner, or upon transmitting to such 
Begistrar information of his name and address, and enclosing such decla¬ 
rations as aforesaid. 
5. Every person who before the passing of this Act has been actually 
engaged and employed as an Assistant to any “ Pharmaceutical Chemist” 
or to any “ Chemist and Druggist ” in Great Britain, and has attained the 
age of twenty-one years, and w r ho shall, prior to the 1st day of January, 
18G5, present or cause to be presented to the said Begistrar a certificate 
according to the form set forth in Schedule D. to this Act, signed by him¬ 
self and by two persons registered as Pharmaceutical Chemists or regis¬ 
tered or entitled to be registered as Chemists and Druggists, shall be en¬ 
titled, on payment of a fee of Five Shillings, to he registered as an Assistant 
under or according to the provisions of the Pharmacy Act. 
6. All persons who are or shall be duly registered as Assistants or Asso¬ 
ciates under or according to the provisions of the Pharmacy Act, shall, on 
commencing business as chemists and druggists, be registered as Chemists 
and Druggists on payment of a fee not exceeding One Guinea, to be fixed 
by the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. 
7. The Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain shall, 
with all convenient speed after the passing of this Act, and from time to 
time as occasion may require, make orders or regulations for regulating 
the Begister to be kept under this Act, as nearly as conveniently may be 
in accordance with the form set forth in the Schedule A. to this Act or to 
the like effect. 
8. It shall be the duty of the Begistrar to make and keep a correct Be-' 
gister, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, of all persons who, on 
the 1st day of January, 18G5, shall have been or shall be carrying on the 
business of a chemist and druggist, in the keeping of open shop for the 
compounding of the prescriptions of duly qualified medical practitioners, 
and also of all persons w'ho shall have been or shall be examined by exa¬ 
miners, and have received a certificate of competent skill and knowledge, 
and have commenced business as chemists and druggists, and also of all 
persons who shall be registered as Assistants under or according to the 
provisions of the Pharmacy Act, and to erase the names of all registered 
persons who shall have died, and from time to time to make the necessary 
alterations in the addresses of the persons registered under this Act; and 
to enable the Begistrar duly to fulfil the duties imposed upon him, it shall 
he lawful for the Begistrar to write a letter to any registered person, ad¬ 
dressed to him according to his address on the Begister, to inquire whether 
he has ceased to carry on business or has changed his residence, and if no 
answer shall be returned to such letter 'within the period of six months 
from the sending of the letter, it shall be lawful to erase the name of such 
person from the Begister: Provided always, that the same may be restored 
by direction of the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Bri¬ 
tain, should they think fit to make an order to that effect. 
9. No name shall he entered in the Begister unless the Begistrar be 
satisfied by the proper evidence that the person claiming is entitled to it; 
and any appeal from the decision of the Begistrar may he decided by the 
Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain; and any entry 
which shall he proved to the satisfaction of such Council to have been 
fraudulently or incorrectly made, may he erased from or amended in the 
Begister by order in writing of such Council. 
