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3. (1) It shall be the duty of the Board to examine candidates for the Qualifying Examination whose names have been submitted by the Registrar as having complied with the provisions of the Ordinance.
(2) The certificate referred to in the Regulations headed "Certificates "shall be signed by any three members of the Board.'
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3. The regulations headed "Course of Training, Study and Examination for Applicante for Registration as Pharmacists" are rescinded and the following regulations are substituted therefor:-
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*COURSE OF TRAINING, STUDY AND EXAMINATION FOR AFTLICANTS FOR HEGISTRATION AS PHARMACISTS, REQUIREMENTS FOR REGISTRATION AS AN APPRENTICE OR STUDENT. 1. Every applicant for registration as an apprentice or student must have entered into Articles of Pupilage with a registered pharmacist or with a body corporate entitled to become an authorised seller of poisons, or with a pharmacist jointly with either the committee of a hospital or simila institution or the owner of a pharmaceutical manufacturing laboratory) Provided that where a person is engaged on a full time agreement in Government hospital or other Government institution under the direction of a qualified pharmacist, such agreement shall be accepted in the place of Articles of Pupilage.
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2. At the time of making an application for registration as apprentice or student the applicant shall-
(a) lodge with the Registrar a certificate of having passed the Matriculation Examination of the University of Hong Kong ar such other equivalent examination as the Registrar shall approve, and shall have taken in that examination the following subjects:
(i) English and Mathematics;
(ii) One of the following subjects :-
Chemistry, Physics, Botany or Biology;
(5) pay the prescribed fee for registration;
(c) lodge with the Registrar a copy of his Articles of Pupilage.
QUALIFTING EXAMINATION-GENERAL,
3. The Qualifying Examination shall be styled "The Chemist and Druggist Qualifying Examination".
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The Qualifying Examination shall be in two parts, the first part the Intermediate Examination and the second part the Final Examination. TRAINING AND REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION TO THE QUALIFTING EXAMINATION,
REQUIREMENTS FOR ENTRY TO THE INTERMEDIATE EXAMINATION.
5. The Intermediate Examination aball be held twice a year in June and December. Whon applying to enter for the first time, the candidate shall-
(a) have been registered as an apprentice or student; (b) pay the prescribed fee;
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(c) lodge with the Registrar a certificata on the official forma obtainable from the Registrar signed by the applicant's principal or bis authorised deputy that, subsequent to registra- lion as an apprentice or student, be has attended a course of approved instruction at a recoguised educational institution over a period of one year full time study or two years' attendanço at evening classes.
The subjects of the Intermediate Examination shall be Chemistry, Physics and Biology and the examination shall be conducted in accordance with the syllabus sa approved from time to time by the Governor in Council. The Registrar shall supply, without fee, a copy of the syllabus to any person ou application.
7. A person who has been registered as an apprentice or student and who satisfies the Registrar that be has passed one of the examinations set out in Appendix 1 shall be deemed to have passed the Intermediate Examina- tion provided that the subjects include Chemistry, Physics and Biology. If the subjects include two only of those prescribed in these Regulations he shall be deemed to have passed the examination in such two subjects.
8. A candidate shall present himself for examination in all of the subjects of the examination except that a candidate who shall be deemed to have passed the examination in two of the subjects only way present himself for examination in the one remaining subject.
only may, subject to the permission of the Examiners, present himself for 9. A candidate who has failed to satisfy the Examiners in one subjact
examination in that one subject only. Before be applies to enter again for produce satisfactory evidence to the Examiners that he has complied with the examination a candidate who has failed to satisfy the Examiners shall
any conditions made by them concerning his presenting himself for examina-- tion in the subject in which he failed to satisfy the Examiners.
10. Except in the following circumstances no fee or portion of a fee shall be returned :—
(a) a candidate who withdraws before the last date of entry for the
examination shall receive back the fee paid;
(b) a candidate who has entered for the examination but fails to present himself and submits proof satisfactory to the Registrar that bis absence was due to illness or other unavoidable cause shall receive back the fee paid.
REQUIREMENTS FOR Entnt TO THE FINAL EXAMINATION.
11. The Examination shall be held twice a year in March and October. When applying to enter the Examination for the first time a candidate shall- (a) have passed or be deemed to have passed the Intermediate
Examination;
(b) pay the prescribed fee;
(c) produce to the Registrar
(I) a certificate of registration of birth;