QUALIFICATIONS OF CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS 
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engaged in retailing or dispensing dangerous drugs, simple or com¬ 
pounded, as enumerated in Schedule (A.) of this Act or in the Bye-laws 
made as hereinafter empowered to be made, or in the retailing of other 
than patented medicines, such persons not being licenciates of the 
Royal College of Physicians of London, or the Royal College of Surgeons 
of England, or of the Society of Apothecaries of London, or persons re¬ 
gistered under The Medical Act of 1858 or the Pharmacy Act of 1852, 
or apprentices to persons properly qualified within the meaning of this 
Act, shall produce to the Registrar appointed under this Act Certificates 
from duly appointed examiners of their competent knowledge of drugs 
and medicines in general use, with their doses, and of their ability to 
read physicians’ prescriptions with ease and accuracy, and be registered 
as chemists and druggists upon payment of a sum of money to be fixed 
by the Council, not exceeding one guinea , for registration. 
15. Provided always, that any persons failing to produce certificates 
from examiners, as in the fourteenth section of this Act provided, but 
nevertheless claiming to be Chemists and Druggists or Chemists and 
Druggists’ assistants and apprentices at the time of this Act coming into 
operation, shall and are hereby required to be registered as such upon 
making a declaration in the form specified in Schedule (B.) to this Act 
annexed, and the payment of a sum of money not exceeding one guinea 
for registration; and any person wilfully making a false declaration for 
the purpose aforesaid, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty 
pounds , to be recoverable in a summary way, by information and summons 
before any two of Her Majesty’s Justices of the Peace, at the suit of the 
Chemists and Druggists’ Society of England and Wales. 
10. No person who is required to be registered under the provisions of 
this Act shall be entitled to recover in any Court of Law or Equity any 
charge accruing after the coming into operation of this Act for any 
drugs or medicines as per Schedules (A.) and (C.) or the dispensing 
thereof, unless he shall prove upon the trial, by the production of a 
certificate purporting to be duly certified, that he is registered under this 
Act; and every person who shall offend against the provisions of this 
Act by retailing, dispensing, or compounding drugs and medicines, or by 
being engaged and employed in the retailing, dispensing, or compounding 
thereof, as provided in section fourteen, or employing unregistered as¬ 
sistants, shall be liable to a penalty or penalties not exceeding five pounds 
for every distinct act of retailing, dispensing, or compounding of which 
he may be guilty. 
17. It shall be lawful for the Council and they are hereby authorized 
and empowered to transact all business under this Act, and to make and 
establish such Bye-laws as they shall deem proper and necessary for the 
purposes contemplated by this Act, and from time to time to repeal, 
alter, and amend the same, or make new and additional Bye-laws: 
provided always, that all such Bye-laws, and all altered, amended, or 
additional Bye-laws, shall be confirmed and approved by one of Her 
Majesty’s principal Secretaries of State; and it shall be lawful for the 
said Council to call Meetings of the registered Members of the Society 
of Chemists and Druggists from time to time for such objects connected 
with the purposes of this Act as they shall deem fit. 
18. All the Drugs and Chemicals enumerated and specified in Schedule 
(C.) to this Act annexed, or in the Bye-laws to be made hereafter, enu¬ 
merated and specified as Poisons, shall, for the purposes of this Act, be 
deemed Active Poisons; and that no person shall knowingly sell the 
same, or any of them, in any quantities to any person, whom they may 
have reasonable grounds to believe to be under the age of twenty-one 
years, or to any person who is unknown to the seller, unless the sale is 
made in the presence of a witness who is known to the person selling 
the same, and to whom the purchaser is known, and who shall sign his 
name, together with his place of abode, in a book or books to be kept by 
cians, Surgeons, 
or Apothecaries, 
or registered 
under the Medi¬ 
cal or Pharmacy 
Act, or Appren¬ 
tices, to produce 
Certificates from 
Examiners as to 
their compe¬ 
tency, and to be 
registered under 
this Act. 
Chemists and 
Druggists at the 
passing of this 
Act to be regis¬ 
tered. 
No person to re¬ 
cover for Drugs 
unless he pro¬ 
duce on trial a 
Certificate of 
Registration. 
Penalty on un¬ 
qualified persons, 
and on employing 
unregistered 
Assistants. 
Power for the 
Council to make 
Bye-laws, to be 
confirmed by the 
Secretary of 
State. 
Power to call 
Meetings of 
Chemists and 
Druggists. 
Restrictions and 
Penalty on the 
sale of Poisons. 
