Poisons and Pharmacy Act, 1908

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Extension of powers of Pharmaceutical Society to make byelaws.

55 Geo. 3. c. 194.

4. The power of making byelaws conferred by section two of the Pharmacy Act, 1852, on the council of the Pharmaceutical Society shall be deemed to include the power of making byelaws for all or any of the following purposes (that is to say):—

(a) Requiring persons desirous of presenting themselves for examination by the said society to produce evidence satisfactory to the council of the society that they have received a sufficient preliminary practical training in the subjects of the examination;

(b) Providing for the registration, upon payment of the prescribed fee, as pharmaceutical chemists or chemists and druggists under the Pharmacy Acts, 1852 and 1868, without examination, of any persons holding colonial diplomas or of qualified military dispensers or certified assistants to apothecaries under the Apothecaries Act, 1815, who produce evidence satisfactory to the council of the society that they are persons of sufficient skill and knowledge to be so registered;

(c) Providing for periods of time and courses of study in connexion with the qualifying examination, and dividing such examination into two parts.