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Amendment of 31 & 32 Vict. c. 121. ss. 15 and 16.
15 & 16 Vict. c. 56.
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3.—(1) Any person who, being a duly registered pharmaceutical chemist or chemist and druggist, carries on the business of pharmaceutical chemist or chemist and druggist shall, unless in every premises where the business is carried on the business is bonâ fide conducted by himself or some other duly registered pharmaceutical chemist or chemist and druggist, as the case may be, and unless the name and certificate of qualification of the person by whom the business is so conducted in any premises is conspicuously exhibited in the premises, be guilty of an offence under section fifteen of the Pharmacy Act, 1868.
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(2) The provisions of section sixteen of the Pharmacy Act, 1868, which enable the executor, administrator, or trustee of the estate of a deceased pharmaceutical chemist or chemist and druggist to continue his business so long as such business is bonâ fide conducted by a duly qualified assistant, shall be construed as enabling such executor, administrator, or trustee to carry on the business if and so long only as, in every premises where the business is carried on, the business is bonâ fide conducted by a duly registered pharmaceutical chemist or chemist and druggist, as the case may be, and the name and certificate of qualification of the person by whom the business is so conducted in any premises is conspicuously exhibited in the premises.
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(3) A registered chemist or druggist may, notwithstanding anything in section fifteen of the Pharmacy Act, 1868, take, use, or exhibit the name or title of pharmacist.
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(4) A body corporate, and in Scotland a firm or partnership, may carry on the business of a pharmaceutical chemist or chemist and druggist—
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(a) if the business of the body corporate, firm, or partnership, so far as it relates to the keeping, retailing, and dispensing of poisons, is under the control and management of a superintendent who is a duly registered pharmaceutical chemist or chemist and druggist, whose name has been forwarded to the registrar appointed under the Pharmacy Act, 1852, to be entered by him in a register to be kept for that purpose, and who does not act at the same time in a similar capacity for any other body corporate, firm, or partnership; and
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(b) if in every premises where such business as aforesaid is carried on, and is not personally conducted by the superintendent, such business is bonâ fide conducted under the direction of the superintendent by a manager or assistant who is a duly registered pharmaceutical chemist or chemist and druggist, and whose certificate of qualification is conspicuously exhibited in the shop or other place in which he so conducts the business.
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A body corporate, and in Scotland a firm or partnership, may use the description of chemist and druggist, or of chemist or of druggist, or of dispensing chemist or druggist, if the foregoing requirements as to the carrying on of the business are observed, and if the superintendent is a member of the board of directors or other governing body of the body corporate, or of the firm or partnership, as the case may be.
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Subject as aforesaid, section twelve of the Pharmacy Act, 1852, and sections one and fifteen of the Pharmacy Act, 1868, shall apply to a body corporate, and in Scotland to a firm or partnership, in like manner as they apply to an individual.
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