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Qualifications

for registration as pharmacists.

Certificate of registration as a pharmacist.

8.

(1) Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, there may be registered as a pharmacist any person who-

(a) holds a diploma in pharmacy of the University of Hong

Kong;

(b) is duly registered as a pharmaceutical chemist or chemist and druggist with the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain;

(c) holds a certificate of a Commonwealth pharmaceutical institution which has entered into an agreement for reciprocity of registration with the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain;

(d) has successfully completed a course of training and study and who has passed any examinations thereon that may have been prescribed by the Board; and

(e) holds any diploma or certificate, other than a certificate to which paragraph (c) refers, and who has satisfied the Board by examination or otherwise that he has the skill and experience in pharmacy equivalent to that possessed by a person to whom paragraphs (a) to (d) relate.

(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in subsection (1), the Board may require any applicant for registration as a pharmacist to prove his competency by examination or to undergo such further period of training as the Board may specify.

(3) For the purposes of conducting examinations on behalf of the Board, there shall be a committee of examiners consisting of the following persons-

(a) the Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Hong

Kong:

(6) the Government Chemist:

(c) the Chief Pharmacist of the Medical and Health Depart-

ment:

(d) one medical officer in the Medical and Health Depart-

ment appointed by the Board; and

(e) one registered pharmacist (not being a public officer)

appointed by the Board.

9. (1) Upon the registration of a person as a pharmacist the Secretary shall issue to him a certificate of registration as a pharmacist.

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(2) If a certificate issued under subsection (1) is lost or destroyed, or if for any other reason a registered pharmacist requires a duplicate certificate to be issued, the Secretary shall, on being satisfied that the original certificate of registration has been lost or destroyed or that a duplicate certificate is required for good reason, and upon payment of a prescribed fee (if any). issue to the pharmacist a certified duplicate of the certificate of registration.

(3) If the name of any pharmacist is removed from the register of pharmacists in accordance with a direction of a Disciplinary Committee under section 16, that pharmacist shall forthwith return to the Secretary the certificate of registration and any certified duplicate thereof (if any), or if the said certificate or duplicate has been lost or destroyed the pharmacist shall deliver to the Secretary a signed statement to that effect.

10. (1) Any person who, with intent to deceive--

(a) forges, or uses, or lends to or allows to be used by any other person a certificate of registration as a pharmacist or any other certificate issued under any enactment, whether of this Colony or elsewhere, relating to phar- macy: or

(b) makes or has in his possession a document so closely resembling any such certificate as aforesaid as to be calculated to deccïve,

shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars.

(2) In this section, the expression "Torges" has the same meaning as in the Forgery Ordinance.

11. (1) A business comprising the retail sale of poisons carried on by a registered pharmacist or by a body corporate or an unincorporated body of persons shall be an authorized seller of poisons if the actual sale of poisons is conducted on premises duly registered under this Ordinance by a registered pharmacist or in his presence and under bis supervision.

(2) The name, the certificate of registration and a notice setting out the hours of attendance of each registered pharmacist engaged in, or employed by an authorized seller of poisons in. the business shall be displayed in a conspicuous place in the premises where he is so engaged or employed.

Misuse of certificates of

registration.

(Cup 109.)

Authorized sollers of POISONS.