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Persons selling or compounding poisons or assuming the title of pharmaceutical chemist to be qualified.
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30. So much of the Act of 1791 as prohibits the keeping of open shop within the meaning of the said Act by any person other than a licentiate of Apothecaries Hall shall be repealed; provided always, that it shall be unlawful for any person to sell or keep open shop for retailing, dispensing, or compounding poisons within the meaning of the Act of the session of the thirty-third and thirty-fourth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter twenty-six, or medical prescriptions, unless such person be registered as a pharmaceutical chemist or a chemist and druggist under this Act, or to assume or use the title of Pharmaceutical Chemist, or Pharmaceutist, or Pharmacist, or Dispensing Chemist, or the title of Chemist and Druggist in any part of Ireland, unless such person shall be registered as a pharmaceutical chemist or as a chemist and druggist respectively under this Act; and any person acting in contravention of this enactment, or compounding any medicines of the British Pharmacopæia, except according to the formularies of the said Pharmacopæia, shall for every such offence be liable to pay a penalty of five pounds; but no such penalty shall exempt any person from being liable to any other penalty, damage, or punishment to which he would have been subject if this Act had not passed: Provided always, that nothing in this section contained shall affect any licentiate of Apothecaries Hall, or any person who shall have been registered as a legally qualified medical practitioner before the passing of this Act, or who shall be registered as a legally qualified practitioner after the passing of this Act, and who, in order to obtain his diploma, shall have passed an examination in pharmacy.
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