QUALIFICATIONS OF CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS. 
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2. All such persons as shall from time to time have been appointed to Examiners under 
conduct examinations under the Pharmacy Act shall be and are hereby theExaminers 
declared to be examiners for the purposes of this Act, and are hereby under this Act.— 
empowered and required to examine all such persons as shall tender them- Certificate of 
selves for examination under the provisions of this Act; and any person competent skill, 
who shall have been examined by such examiners, and shall have ob¬ 
tained from them a certificate of competent skill and knowledge and 
qualification to be registered as a Chemist and Druggist, shall be en¬ 
titled to be registered as a Chemist and Druggist under this Act; and 
the examination aforesaid shall be such as is now in use under the Phar¬ 
macy Act for the purposes of a qualification to be registered as Assistant 
under that Act, or as the same may be varied from time to time by any 
Bye-law to be made in accordance with the Pharmacy Act, with the ap¬ 
probation of one of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State. 
3. The Registrar appointed or to be appointed under or by virtue of Registrar under 
the Pharmacy Act shall be the Registrar for the purposes of this Act. Pharmacy Act to 
4. Any person who before the passing of this Act has been or w r ho under this Act. 
before t\iQ first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, - 
shall be actually carrying on business in Great Britain as a Chemist and Chemists and^ 
Druggist, in the keeping of open shop for the compounding of the pre- Beilin* Great*" 
scriptions of duly qualified medical practitioners, shall be entitled to be Britain before 
registered, on producing to the Registrar a declaration according to the 1 st January, 
form in the Schedule (B.) to this Act, signed by him, and also a declara- 
tion according to the form in the Schedule (C.) to this Act, signed by a chemists and 
duly qualified medical practitioner, or upon transmitting to such Regis- Druggists, 
trar information of his name and address, and enclosing such declarations 
as aforesaid. 
5. Every person who before the passing of this Act has been actually Assistants may 
engaged and employed as an Assistant to any “ Chemist and Druggist ” be registered as 
in Great Britain, and has attained the age of twenty-one years, and who uruggists^nder 
shall prior to the first day of January , one thousand eight hundred and this Act. 
sixty-six, present or cause to be presented to the said Registrar a certifi¬ 
cate according to the form set forth in Schedule (D.) to this Act, signed 
by himself and by any Chemist and Druggist, shall be entitled to be re¬ 
gistered as a Chemist and Druggist under this Act. 
6. All persons who are or shall be duly registered as Assistants or Assistants and 
Associates under or according to the provisions of the Pharmacy Act p^rmacy Act ° r 
shall be entitled to be registered as Chemists and Druggists under this may b e register- 
Act. ed as Chemists 
7. The Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain shall, arul D rugg ets, 
with all convenient speed after the passimg of this Act, and from time council of Phar- 
to time as occasion may require, make orders or regulations for regulat- maceutical So- 
ing the Register to be kept under this Act, as nearly as conveniently Q^erlTforre 6 u 
may be in accordance with the form set forth in the Schedule (A.) to Jatin^Eegisters* 
this Act, or to the like effect. t-o be kept. 
8. It shall be the duty of the Registrar to make and keep a correct —~ . 
Register, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, of all persons make*and 
who on or after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ^ eep correc t 
sixty-six, shall be entitled to be registered as Chemists and Druggists Registers, 
under this 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 
Registrar duly to fulfil the duties imposed upon him it shall be lawful 
for the Registrar to w r rite a letter to any registered person, addressed to 
him according to his address on the Register, 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 Register: Provided always, that the same may be re¬ 
stored, by direction of the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of 
Great Britain, should they think fit to make an order to that effect. 
