Pharmacy Act, 1962
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Charging of fees by the Council. |
6.—(1) The Council may charge fees for any registration, restoration to a register, certificate, course of instruction provided by the Council or examination conducted by the Council, which is authorised by or under the enactments relating to pharmacy. | |
(2) The Council may charge entrance fees in respect of elections to membership of the Society under section 6 of the Principal Act and may charge annual fees in respect of membership of the Society. | ||
(3) The Council may charge annual fees in respect of the retention on registers maintained by the Society of persons who are not members of the Society. | ||
(4) The amount of any fee under this section shall be such amount as may from time to time be determined by the Council with the consent of the Minister, and fees of different amounts may be determined— | ||
(a) in respect of membership of the Society by persons on whom the title of Fellow of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland has been conferred pursuant to section 7 of this Act and in respect of such membership by other persons, and | ||
(b) in respect of the retention on registers maintained by the Society of persons referred to in subsection (3) of this section who keep open shop for the dispensing or compounding of medical prescriptions or the sale of poisons or are employed in a shop so kept and in respect of such retention of persons referred to in the said subsection (3) other than those aforesaid. | ||
(5) Payment of the appropriate fee under this section shall be a condition precedent to the entertainment of any application by the Council for any registration, restoration to a register or certificate, or for admission to any course of instruction or examination which is authorised by or under the enactments relating to pharmacy. | ||
(6) References in section 2 and subsection (5) of section 3 of this Act and in section 14 of the Poisons Act, 1961 , and the regulations under the said section 14 to any of the following persons, namely, a registered pharmaceutical chemist, a registered dispensing chemist and druggist and a registered druggist, shall be deemed not to include references to any such person in respect of whom a fee payable pursuant to subsection (3) of this section is due and unpaid. |