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Restriction on use of certain titles, emblems and descriptions.
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3.—(1) A person shall not, in connection with any business or employment, take or use the name or title of pharmaceutical chemist, either alone or in combination with any other word or letters, or take or use any name, title, addition, description or certificate implying that he is registered in the Register of Pharmaceutical Chemists for Ireland or is recognised by law as being so registered, unless he is so registered.
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(2) A person shall not, in connection with any business or employment, take or use the name or title of dispensing chemist and druggist, either alone or in combination with any other word or letters, or take or use any name, title, addition, description or certificate implying that he is registered in the register of dispensing chemists and druggists or is recognised by law as being so registered, unless he is so registered.
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(3) A person shall not, in connection with any business or employment, take or use the name or title of registered druggist either alone or in combination with any other word or letters, or take or use any name, title, addition, description or certificate implying that he is registered in the register of registered druggists in Ireland or is recognised by law as being so registered, unless he is so registered.
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(4) A person shall not use in connection with any business a title, emblem or description reasonably calculated to suggest that he or a person employed in the business possesses a particular qualification with respect to the selling, dispensing or compounding of drugs or poisons unless he or the person so employed, as the case may be, possesses the qualification.
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(5) For the purposes of subsection (4) of this section, the use of any of the following descriptions, namely, pharmacy, medical stores, drug stores, drug hall, medical supply stores, chemist, in connection with a business carried on in any premises and consisting of or including the selling by retail of drugs or poisons shall be deemed to be reasonably calculated to suggest that the person managing and conducting the business on those premises is a registered pharmaceutical chemist, a registered dispensing chemist and druggist or a registered druggist.
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(6) A person who contravenes any of the preceding subsections of this section shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds, together with, in the case of a continuing offence, a further fine not exceeding four pounds for each day on which the offence is continued.
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(7) This section shall not apply in relation to the use by a licentiate of Apothecaries Hall who keeps open shop for the dispensing or compounding of medical prescriptions or the sale of poisons of the description of medical hall in respect of the premises where the dispensing or compounding or the sale is carried on.
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