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A BILL
INTITULED
An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the law relating to the Registration of Pharmaceutical Chemists and to the Regulation of the Sale and Use of Poisons.
BE in enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Pharmacy and Short title. Poisons Ordinance, 1916.
2. In this Ordinance-
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Registered persons means all persons registered
under this Ordinance.
"Poison " means any article for the time being in-
cluded in Schedule A hereto.
Interpreta- tion.
3. The Colonial Secretary shall keep a register of all Register of persons entitled to be registered under this Ordinance in Pharma- such form as he may deem proper and shall make the ceutical necessary alterations therein and a copy of such register Chemists. shall be published anunally in the Gazette.
4.-(1.) Subject to the provisions of section 5 of this Qualifica. Ordinance, the following persons shall be entitled to be tions for registered as pharmaceutical chemists under this Ordi- registration.
nauce:
(4.) any person duly registered as a pharmaceutical chemist or chemist and druggist under the Pharmacy Act, 1868 ;
(b) any person duly registered as a chemist and druggist or druggist or registered druggist under the Pharmacy Act (Ireland) (1875) Amendment Act, 1890;
(4.) any person duly registered as a pharmaceutical chemist or chemist and druggist under the Pharmacy Ordinances, 1908-1914;
(d) any person who, proves to the satisfaction of the Governor that he possesses a qualification of some British or foreign pharmaceutical institution or examining body approved by the Governor in Council, or that he has passed through a course of study and examination similar to the course of study and examination required for registration under either of the said Acts.
(2.) All persons who immediately before the com- mencement of this Ordinance were on the register establish- ed by the Pharmacy Ordinance, 1908, shall be deemed to have been duly registered under this Ordinance.
5. The Governor-in-Council may direct the name of Removal any person who is convicted of an offence against this from the Ordinance which in his opinion renders him unfit to be on register. the register to be erased therefrom and the Colonial Se- cretary shall erase the same accordingly and shall publish
a notification of such erasure in the Gazette.
6. The Governor-in-Council may make regulations for Regulations. any of the following purposes :—-
(.) prescribing the character and scope of the course of study and examination required to have been passed by applicants for registration under section 4 (d);
(b.) the appointment of examiners for the purposes of such examination and the fees payable by the applicants in respect of such examination; (c.) the issue of certificates by such examiners ; (d.) the amount of the fee (if any) payable ou
registration;
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