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Examination.
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21. For the purpose of ascertaining the qualification of persons desirous of keeping open shop for the retailing, dispensing, or compounding poisons or medical prescriptions and being registered as pharmaceutical chemists or as chemists and druggists under this Act, the said council shall cause examinations to be held at such times and in such manner as may be prescribed by regulations made in pursuance of this Act, and the said council shall appoint examiners to conduct the same: Provided always, that no person shall conduct any examination for the purposes of this Act until his appointment has been approved by the Lord Lieutenant and Privy Council, and such appointment shall not in any case be in force for more than five years; and that it shall be the duty of the said Pharmaceutical Society to allow any officer appointed by the Lord Lieutenant and Privy Council for that purpose to be present during the progress of any examination held for the purposes of this Act.
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All persons desirous of being registered as pharmaceutical chemists under this Act may at any such examination present themselves for examination, and they shall be examined with respect to their knowledge of the Latin and English languages, of arithmetic, of botany, of materia medica, of pharmaceutical and general chemistry, of practical pharmacy, of the British Pharmaeopæia, and of such other subjects as may from time to time be prescribed by any regulations made in pursuance of this Act; and all persons desirous of being registered as chemists and druggists under this Act may at any such examination present themselves for examination, and they shall be subjected to such a modified examination with respect to their knowledge of the subjects aforesaid as may from time to time be prescribed by any regulations made in pursuance of this Act: Provided always, that such examinations shall not include the theory and practice of medicine, surgery, or midwifery, or any branch of medicine or surgery; and the examiners appointed by the council are hereby empowered, after such examinations respectively, to grant or refuse to such persons, as in their discretion may seem fit, certificates of competent knowledge and qualification and skill to be registered as pharmaceutical chemists or as chemists and druggists under this Act: Provided always, that in case, of rejection a rejected candidate shall not present himself for re-examination until after six months after such rejection.
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