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A BILL FOR REGULATING THE 
Penalty on un¬ 
qualified Che¬ 
mists and Drug¬ 
gists. 
Mode of recover¬ 
ing Penalties. 
Certificates of 
Registration to 
be given by the 
Registrar on ap¬ 
plication.. 
A Register of 
Chemists and 
Druggists to be 
kept. 
Exemption of re- 
gisteredChemists 
and Druggists 
from serving on 
Juries. 
Annual fee and 
appropriation of 
surplus funds of 
the Society. 
the seller for such purpose to entries made at the time of sale therein of 
the day of such sale, and the quantities sold, and the purpose for which 
required: Provided always, that this provision shall not extend to the 
sale of any such Drugs or Chemicals when the same form part of the 
ingredients of any medicine required to be made up or compounded 
according to the prescription of any legally qualified Medical Practitioner 
or to the sale of such Drugs and Chemicals by wholesale and retail 
Chemists and Druggists upon orders in writing in the ordinary course of 
their business: Provided also, that any person offending against the 
aforesaid enactments shall be liable to a penalty, recoverable upon sum¬ 
mary conviction before two Justices of the Peace, not exceeding twenty 
pounds , at the suit of the Chemists and Druggists’ Society of England 
and Wales. 
19. Any person or persons who shall keep shop, store, or other place 
for the retailing of drugs and medicines, and shall wilfully and falsely 
hold himself or themselves out or pretend to be or take or use the name 
or title of a Chemist and Druggist, or any name, title, addition, or 
description, such person or persons, being required by this Act to be 
registered under the provisions thereof, shall upon a summary conviction 
before two Justices of the Peace for any such offence pay and forfeit a 
sum of money not exceeding twenty pounds. 
20. All proceedings for the recovery of penalties under this Act shall 
be brought and carried on by the Council in their corporate name, and 
by no other persons ; and any sums or sum of money recovered or ad¬ 
judged to be paid by way of penalty under the provisions of this Act 
shall be paid to the Treasurer of the Council for the use and benefit of 
the said corporate body. 
21. The Registrar shall be bound, on the application of any person 
paying one shilling, to certify under his hand whether or no any person 
whose name and address shall be furnished to him appears in the said 
register of Chemists and Druggists or not; the certificate of such Regis¬ 
trar, purporting to be signed by the said Registrar and sealed with the 
corporate seal of any entries in the said register, shall in the absence of 
evidence to the contrary be sufficient evidence of the facts therein stated 
up to the date of the said certificate. 
22. The Registrar shall from time to time make out and maintain a 
complete register, and enter therein the names and addresses of all 
persons being Chemists and Druggists entitled to be registered under 
this Act, and also of all persons being registered assistants and appren¬ 
tices respectively, and shall keep a proper index of the register, and all 
such other registers and books as may be necessary for the purposes of 
this Act, or required by the Council of the said Society. 
23. Every person who shall be registered under the provisions of this 
Act shall be exempt, if he so shall so desire, from serving on any jury 
or inquest whatsoever, and from serving in the militia. 
24. An annual fee of half-a-guinea shall be paid by all Chemists and 
Druggists registered under this Act engaged in business as principals, 
and that any surplus monies remaining in the hand of the Treasurer 
after liquidating all demands and charges to be from time to time in¬ 
curred in carrying out the objects of this Act, shall and may from 
time to time, and in such manner as the said Council shall see fit to set 
apart and appropriate to the formation and maintenance of a charity for 
the relief and benefit of poor Chemists and Druggists who may have 
been registered under this Act, and their families. 
