Pharmacy Act 1953
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Pharmacy Act , 1953
(1 & 2 Eliz. 2) CHAPTER 19
An Act to amend the law relating to pharmacy and for purposes consequential on such amendment.
[20th May 1953]
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Abolition of register of chemists and druggists.
(1) The register of chemists and druggists directed to be kept by section ten of the Pharmacy Act, 1868, shall cease to be kept, and (subject to the following provisions of this Act) so much of the Pharmacy and Poisons Acts, 1852 to 1941, as relates to the registration of persons as chemists and druggists, or to persons so registered, shall cease to have effect.
(2) The provisions of the First Schedule to this Act shall have effect for securing the registration as pharmaceutical chemists of persons who immediately before the coming into operation of this section were registered or entitled to be registered as chemists and druggists, and for other purposes consequential on the provisions of this section.
2 Examinations for registration of pharmaceutical chemists.
(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, the persons who are to be examiners for the purposes of section eight of the Pharmacy Act, 1852, shall be appointed by the Council, and so much of that section as regulates the appointment of such examiners shall cease to have effect.
(2) The following provisions of the Pharmacy Act, 1868, that is to say:—
(a ) so much of section six as relates to the powers of the Privy Council in respect of the appointment of examiners and the conduct of examinations; and
(b ) section seven so far as it relates to fees payable on examinations,
shall apply to examinations held for the purposes of the Pharmacy Act, 1852, as they applied, before the coming into operation of section one of this Act, to examinations held under the said Act of 1868.
3 Register of pharmaceutical chemists.
(1) The register of pharmaceutical chemists kept under section ten of the Pharmacy Act, 1852, shall be kept in such form and manner, and the annual registers of pharmaceutical chemists published under section thirteen of the Pharmacy Act, 1868, shall be prepared in such form, as may be prescribed by byelaws; and so much of the said section thirteen as requires the said annual registers to be printed, published and sold in the month of January shall cease to have effect.
(2) Sections ten and twelve of the Pharmacy Act, 1868 (which relate to the keeping of the register of chemists and druggists under that Act) shall apply (subject to the foregoing provisions of this section) to the register of pharmaceutical chemists and to persons entitled to be registered therein as they applied, before the coming into operation of section one of this Act, to the register of chemists and druggists and to persons entitled or authorised to be registered under that Act.
4 Byelaws as to examinations, etc.
(1) The following paragraph shall be substituted for paragraph (a ) of section four of the Poisons and Pharmacy Act, 1908 (which extends the powers of the Council to make byelaws with respect to examinations and registration):—
‘(a ) Providing that no certificate referred to in section eight or nine of the Pharmacy Act, 1852, shall be granted to any person unless such person produces evidence satisfactory to the Council of the Society that he has received a sufficient practical training in the subjects of the examination;’.
(2) The following paragraphs shall be substituted for paragraph (c ) of the said section four:—
‘(c ) Requiring persons desirous of presenting themselves for examination under the Pharmacy Act, 1852, to produce evidence satisfactory to the Council of the Society that they have received a sufficient general education;
(d ) Providing for periods of time and courses of study in connection with the examination for the purposes of the Pharmacy Act, 1852, and dividing such examination into two or more parts.’.
5 Registration of persons holding University degrees in pharmacy.
(1) The power of the Council to make byelaws under section two of the Pharmacy Act, 1852, shall include power to make byelaws as to the registration as pharmaceutical chemists of persons holding or having held a degree granted in respect of pharmacy by any University in the United Kingdom, providing for their registration (subject to such conditions as to character and otherwise as may be prescribed by the byelaws) either—
(a ) without examination, and without satisfying any requirements to which they would be subject apart from this section under byelaws made by virtue of section four of the Poisons and Pharmacy Act, 1908; or
(b ) subject to requirements as to examination, or to any such requirements as aforesaid, relaxed as compared with those to which they would be subject apart from this section.
(2) Any byelaws made by virtue of this section may include provision requiring the payment, as a condition of registration, of such fee as may be prescribed by the said byelaws.
6 Extension of objects of benevolent fund.
(1) The Council may, out of the property of the Society and out of any property for the time being comprised in the benevolent fund established in pursuance of the Charter of the Society, as amended by section twenty-two of the Pharmacy Act, 1868, make provision for such purposes relating to the relief of distressed persons, being—
(a ) members of the Society;
(b ) persons who at any time have been such members or have been registered as pharmaceutical chemists or as chemists and druggists;
(c ) widows, orphans or other dependants of deceased persons who were at any time members of the Society or registered as aforesaid; or
(d ) students of the Society,
as the Council may, subject to byelaws, determine.
(2) Section twenty-two of the Pharmacy Act, 1868, shall cease to have effect.
7 Miscellaneous enactments ceasing to have effect.
7. The following provisions of the Pharmacy and Poisons Acts, 1852 to 1941, shall cease to have effect, that is to say:—
8 Confirmation of Charter.
8. The Charter of the Society, except so far as amended or repealed by this Act or any previous enactment, is hereby confirmed; but nothing in this section affects any power exercisable by Her Majesty by virtue of Her Royal Prerogative in relation to that Charter.
9 Consequential amendments and repeals.
(1) Subject to the provisions of...
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