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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 17, 1912.
DESPATCHES FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
No. 163.
CIRCULAR.
DOWNING STREET,
6th April, 1912.
SIR,-With reference to my Circular despatch of the 19th of December last, I have the honour to transmit for your information a copy of an Order made by the Lords of His Majesty's Privy Council on the 6th of March, 1912, confirming a new by-law made by the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain under Section 4 (b) of the Poisons and Pharmacy Act, 1908, providing, under certain specified conditions, for the registration as Pharmaceu- tical Chemists, or Chemists and Druggists, under the Pharmacy Acts, 1852 and 1868, with- out examination, of persons holding Colonial diplomas.
"The Officer Administering the Government of
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HONGKONG.
L. HARCOURT.
AT THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, WHITEHALL,
THE 6TH DAY OF MARCH, 1912.
BY THE LORDS OF HIS MAJESTY'S MOST HONOURABLE
PRIVY COUNCIL.
LORD PRESIDENT.
PRESENT,
LORD EMMOTT.
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MR. SECRETARY HARCOURT.
HEREAS by Section 2 of the Pharmacy Act, 1852, as amended by Section 25 of the Pharmacy Act, 1868, the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain are authorized and empowered to alter and amend the Byelaws of the said Society made and established under or in pursuance of the Charter of Incorporation of the said Society, and to make and establish such new or additional Byelaws, as they shall deem proper and neces- sary for the purposes contemplated by the said Charter or by the said Act: Provided always that all such original Byelaws, and all altered, amended, or additional Byelaws shall Le confirmed and approved by a Special General Meeting of the Members of the said Society and by the Privy Council:
And whereas the Lords of the Privy Council did, by their Order dated the 20th day of November, 1907, confirm and approve certain Byelaws duly made and submitted to them by the said Council of the said Society:
And whereas by Section 4 of the Poisons and Pharmacy Act, 1908, it is (amongst other things) enacted that the power of making Byelaws conferred by Section 2 of the Phar- macy Act, 1852, on the Council of the said Pharmaceutical Society shall be deemed to include the power of making Byelaws 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 :
And whereas the said Council of the said Society has made a new Byelaw, additional to Section VII of the said Byelaws so confirmed and approved as aforesaid by the Lords of the Privy Council on the 20th day of November, 1907, which said new Byelaw was con- firmed and approved by a Special General Meeting of the Members of the said Society on the 10th day of January, 1912:
And whereas the said Society have submitted the said new Byelaw for the confirmation and approval of the Lords of the Privy Council:
NOW, THEREFORE, their Lordships, having taken the said new Byelaw (a copy of which is hereunto annexed) into consideration, are pleased to confirm and approve the
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ALMERIC FITZROY.