CO129-563-2 Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance- 1937 31-5-1937 - 6-1-1938 — Page 41

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4. Every applicant for entry as an apprentice or student shall make application to the registrar in such form as he may require, and at the time of making such application shall-

(1) pay the prescribed entry fee;

(2) lodge with the registrar a certificate of having passed the school certificate examination of Hong Kong or such other equivalent examination as the registrar may approve, in the following subjects- English, mathematics (including arithmetic, algebra and geometry) and one of the following-higher mathematics, chemistry, physics, botany or biology;

(3) lodge with the registrar a copy of his articles of pupilage.

TRAINING AND REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION TO THE

QUALIFYING EXAMINATION.

5. A candidate must make to the registrar a written application for admission to the qualifying examination or either part thereof and shall when making the same--

(1) pay the prescribed fee for the examination or such part;

(2) produce a certificate of registration of his birth or such other evidence of his age as the registrar may require;

(3) lodge with the registrar a certificate, signed by the candidate, that he has been trained under the supervision of a registered pharmacist in the dispensing and compounding of medicines for four thousand hours, spread over a period of not less than two years, in a shop kept open for the retailing and dispensing of poisons in accordance with the Ordinance, or that he has been trained in a dispensary in charge of a registered pharmacist connected with a hospital or in any institution approved by the registrar and under the supervision therein of a person approved by the registrar; such certificate shall give particulars of the place or places where such training has been received, and the dates and periods of training in each such place, and shall be signed by the candidate and by the pharmacist or other person who supervised the training;

(4) lodge with the registrar a certificate, signed by the pharmacist or other person who supervised his training, that the candidate has received a systematic course of instruction of not less than three hundred hours in pharmacy, three hundred hours in pharmaceutical chemistry and one hundred and twenty hours in pharmacognosy.

6. A candidate who has received training in a place other than the Colony of Hong Kong may at the discretion of the registrar be admitted to the qualifying examination or either part, provided that:—

(1) he pays the prescribed fee for the examination or either part;

(2) he produces a certificate of registration of his birth or such other evidence that he has attained the age of twenty one years as the registrar may require;

(3) he lodges with the registrar a certificate of having passed an examination which in the opinion of the registrar is equivalent to that laid down in regulation 4 (2)

(4) he lodges with the registrar certificates of similar nature to those required under regulation 5, (3) and (4) shewing that he has undergone a course of training and study which in the opinion of the registrar is equivalent to that laid down therein.

7. The qualifying examination shall be in two parts, as follows: Part I. The preliminary scientific examination in:-

Chemistry;

Physics. Botany;

A candidate shall present himself for examination in all three

subjects.

Part II. The qualifying examination in:-

Pharmacognosy;

Pharmaceutical chemistry;

Pharmacy, including the translation and dispensing of

Latin prescriptions;

Forensic Pharmacy.

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