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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[July 8, 1871. 
correct register, in accordance with the provisions of the 
principal Act, of all persons who arc entitled to he registered 
under that Act, and to erase the names of all registered per¬ 
sons who have died or ceased to carry on business, and from 
time to time to make the necessary alterations in the addresses 
of the persons registered under the principal Act. 
Every registered person shall send by post, by a prepaid 
letter, to the Registrar, notice of his ceasing to carry on 
business, and of any change in his address. 
To enable the Registrar duly to fulfil the duties imposed 
upon him, it shall be lawful for him to send by post a pre¬ 
paid letter to any registered person, addressed to him at his 
registered address, and enclosing a form to the effect that the 
person signing the same carries on business at the address 
therein specif cd, and requiring such person to return the 
form, duly filed up and signed, to the Registrar within ten 
days from the date of the letter, and stating that in default 
further proceedings will be taken under this section. 
If the letter so sent is returned to the Registrar through 
the dead letter branch of the Rost Office, the Registrar may 
erase from the register the name of the person to whom the 
same was addressed. 
If the letter is not so returned to the Registrar, but no 
answer is received thereto by the Registrar within three 
weeks after the date of the same being sent, the Registrar 
may send by post a prepaid registered letter, addressed as 
aforesaid, to the like effect as the former letter, but requiring 
the person to whom it is addressed to send with the form a 
fa °f sixpence, and stating that if he fail to return such { 
form duly filed up and signed, and such fee, his name will j 
be erased from the register. 
If the Registrar does not receive the form duly filed up 
and signed, and such fee, within fourteen days after the last- j 
mentioned letter is sent, the Registrar may erase the name of 
the person to whom the same was sent from the register. 
Any name erased in pursuance of this section may be re¬ 
stored by direction of the Council of the Rharmaccutical j 
Society upon the payment of a fee of ten shillings, but the 
Council may remit the fee if it appear to them that the per¬ 
son whose name has been erased has, by reason of not having , 
received the registered letter or otherwise, been innocent of 
any default under this section. 
Section fourteen of the principal Act (which relates to the 
punishing of persons procuring registration by false repre¬ 
sentations) shall extend to any person who wilfully makes 
any false statement in any form sent to the Registrar in 
pursuance of this section, or in any ether communication, 
verbal or written, to the Registrar relative to or to the same 
effect as such form, and every such person shall be liable to 
be punished accordingly. 
The term “ address ” of a person in this section means the 
place at ichich he carries on business. 
Schedule. 
Regulations for the Keeping, Dispensing and Selling of 
Poisons within the meaning of 31 32 Viet. c. 121, to be 
observed by persons keeping open shop. 
(1.) In the keeping of poisons each bottle, vessel, box or 
package containing a poison shall be labelled with the name 
of the article, and also with some distinctive mark indicating 
that it contains poison. 
(2.) In the keeping of poisons each poison shall be kept on 
one or other of the following systems, namely :—- 
(fi) In a bottle or vessel tied over, capped, locked or other- 
unse secured, in a manner different from that in 
ichich bottles or vessels containing ordinary articles 
are secured in the same warehouse, shop or dispen¬ 
sary ; or 
(b) In a bottle or vessel rendered distinguishable by touch 
from the bottles or vessels in which ordinary 
articles are kept in the same warehouse, shop) or 
dispensary ; or 
(c) In a bottle, vessel, box or package kept in a room or 
cupboard set apart for dangerous articles. 
(3.) In the dispensing or selling of poisons, every bottle or 
vessel containing an embrocation, lotion or liniment in the 
composition of which any poison forms a part shall have 
affixed thereto (in addition to the name of the article and to 
any particular instructions for its use) a label, giving notice 
that the contents of the bottle or vessel are not to betaken in¬ 
ternally. 
In this schedule “ poison ” means a poison within the 
meaning of the “ Pharmacy Act, 1868.” 
ORIGINAL DRAFT OF A BILL INTITULED AN 
ACT TO AMEND THE PHARMACY ACT, 1868. 
*** The parts amended are in italics. 
Whereas under the Pharmacy Act, 1868, persons sell¬ 
ing or keeping open shop for retailing, dispensing or 
compounding poisons are required to conform to suck, 
regulations as to the keeping, dispensing and selling of 
poisons as may from time to time be prescribed by the 
Pharmaceutical Society, with the consent of the Privy 
Council: 
And whereas the Pharmaceutical Society have failed 
to submit for the consent of the Privy Council any 
regulations for the above purposes, and it is expedient 
to make further provision for the making of such regu¬ 
lations : 
Be it enacted by the Q.ueen’3 Most Excellent Majesty* 
by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spi¬ 
ritual and Temporal, and Commons, in the present 
Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same 
as follows :— 
1. Tlii3 Act shall be construed as one with the Phar¬ 
macy Act, 1868 (in this Act referred to as the principal. 
Act), and with the Act of the session of the thirty-second 
and thirty-third years of the reign of her present Majesty, 
chapter one hundred and seventeen, intituled “ An Act 
to amend the Pharmacy Act, 1868,” and those Acts and 
this Act may be cited together as the Pharmacy Acts, 
1868 to 1871, and each of the above-mentioned Acts and 
this Act may be cited as the Pharmacy Act of the year- 
in which it was passed. 
2. The recited powers of the Pharmaceutical Society" 
of Great Britain under the principal Act shall cease, and 
the Council of the said Society may from time to time sub¬ 
mit to the Privy Council regulations as to the keeping, dis¬ 
pensing and selling of poisons within the meaning of the 
principal Act, and as to revoking or amending any such re¬ 
gulations previously made, and the Privy Council may, if 
they think Jit, by order approve of such regulations. 
If at any time it appear to the Privy Council that there 
are no regulations for the time being in force under the 
principal Act as to the keeping, dispensing and selling of 
poisons within the meaning of the principal Act, the Privy 
Council may serve a notice on the Council of the Pharmaceu¬ 
tical Society requiring them to frame and submit for the 
approval of the Privy Council regulations as to the matters 
aforesaid, and if the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society T 
■within the time limited by such notice, not being less than 
two months from the date of the service of the notice, make 
default in framing such regulations, or obtaining the ap¬ 
proval of the Privy Council thereto, the Privy Council may 
themselves frame regulations as to the matters aforesaid. 
All regulations approved or framed by the Privy Council' 
in pursuance of this section shall have the same effect as 
regulations prescribed in manner specified in the principal 
Act. 
RECOMMENDATIONS BY THE PHARMACEU¬ 
TICAL SOCIETY OE GREAT BRITAIN FOR 
THE KEEPING, DISPENSING AND SELLING 
OF POISONS. 
1. That in the keeping of poisons each bottle, vessel, box, 
or package containing a poison be labelled with the name of 
tl e article, and also ivith some distinctive mark indicating ? 
that it contains poison. 
