Pharmacy and Poisons Act Amendment Act 1952 (WA)

PHARMACY AND POISONS.

1° Elizabeth II., No. X.

No. 10 of 1952.

AN ACT to amend the Pharmacy and Poisons Act,

1910-1948.

[Assented to 4th November, 1952.]

BE it enacted, by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Short title

and Citation. 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Pharmacy

and Poisons Act Amendment Act, 1952.

(2) In this Act the Pharmacy and Poisons Act,

1910-1948,

Act No. 7 of 1910, reprinted, as amended by Act No. 51 of 1937, pursuant to the provisions of the Amendments Incorporation Act, 1938, in Volume I. of the Reprinted Acts of the Parlia- ment of Western Australia, 1939, and further amended by Act No. 66 of 1948,

is referred to as the principal Act.

1952.] Pharmacy and Poisons. [No. 10.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Pharmacy and Poisons Act 1910-1952.

S. 16

2. Subsection (1) of section sixteen of the prin- cipal Act is amended by adding after the word, "regulations", being the last word in that subsection, the words, "and unless he is domiciled in the State".	amended.
S. 19A

3. The following section to follow section nine- added.

teen is added to the principal Act-

19A. A pharmaceutical chemist who is1==

engaged to take charge of a pharmacy for a g= na-

period exceeding three days during which the chemist'

pharmacy is open for business, and the person

so engaging him shall, in the time and manner

prescribed by the regulations, notify the

Registrar of the engagement.

4. Section twenty-one of the principal Act is ? .22- amonded.

amended by

(a) adding the following paragraph to follow paragraph (b)—

(ba) has in special circumstances proved to the satisfaction of the Council to exist, completed some other course of training approved by the Council, and has passed an examination or examinations prescribed or approved by the Council; or

(b) adding after the word, "regulations" being the last word of paragraph (c), the words, "which certificate or diploma was issued to him to show that he has passed an examina- tion conducted in the English language and of a standard which in the opinion of the Council is substantially equivalent to that prescribed for the registration of a pharma- ceutical chemist in the State.

5. Section twenty-five of the principal Act is amended.

amended by substituting for the words "in the Fifth and Ninth Schedules" in lines one and two the words, "in either the Fifth or the Ninth Schedule."