THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL. 
SECOND SERIES. 
VOL. XI.—No. III.—SEPTEMBER, 1869. 
THE ACT TO AMEND THE PHARMACY ACT OE 1868. 
The Bill to amend the Pharmacy Act of 1868, of which notice was given 
by Lord Robert Montagu at the very commencement of the session, only 
arrived at maturity on the 11th ultimo, when, with a host of other bills, it 
received the Royal assent immediately before the prorogation of Parliament. 
It is printed elsewhere in our present Number, and will be read with satis* 
faction, we think, by all interested in the question. 
Section 1 exempts from the action of the first fifteen sections of the Act of 
1868, all persons already registered as legally qualified medical practitioners, 
and all who may hereafter be so registered, having passed an examination in 
pharmacy. It also declares that the said clauses shall not “ prevent any „ 
person who is a member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons of Great 
Britain, or holds a certificate in veterinary surgery from the Highland and 
Agricultural Society of Scotland, from dispensing medicines for animals 
'under his care.” 
Section 2 removes tbe grievance under which assistants laboured as to the 
date of their period of service, and it is now declared sufficient to have been 
employed as an assistant to a pharmaceutical chemist or chemist and druggist 
in dispensing and compounding prescriptions for a period of three years at any 
time prior to July 31, 1868; this will entitle persons who have been so em¬ 
ployed to be registered on passing the Modified examination. To ensure that 
privilege, however, they must make application on or before the 31st of De¬ 
cember next, and in that matter they are placed exactly in the same condi¬ 
tion, as to time, as those assistants were who secured their rights last year. 
Section 3 is intended to remove certain ambiguity w r hich some persons felt 
as to the construction of Section 17 of the Pharmacy Act, 1868, and is so im¬ 
portant, that we repeat' it here verbatim. 
“ Nothing contained in Section 17 of the said recited Act shall apply to 
any medicine supplied by a legally qualified medical practitioner to his patient, 
or dispensed by any person registered under the said Act, provided such medi¬ 
cine be distinctly labelled tvith the name and address of the seller, and the 
ingredients thereof be entered, tvith the name of the person to whom it is sold, 
or delivered, in a book to be kept by the seller for that purpose 
Section 4 repeals Section 23 and Schedule E. of the Act of 1868 ; by the 
first, enabling persons to be registered as well under the “ Medical Act ” as 
under the “ Pharmacy Act, 1868 by the second, merely clearing the way 
for the new schedule containing the forms for assistants’ applications. 
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