Pharmacy and Poisons Act Amendment Act 1962 (WA)

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PHARMACY AND POISONS.

11° Elizabeth II., No. XXVIII.

No. 28 of 1962.

AN ACT to amend the Pharmacy and Poisons

Act, 1910-1954.

[Assented to 4th October, 1962.]

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, 1962.

Reprinted as

approved for	(2) In this Act the Pharmacy and Poisons Act,
reprint

11th May, 1910-1954, is referred to as the principal Act.

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(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Pharmacy and Poisons Act,

1910-1962.

Commence-

2.

This Act shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by proclamation, being a date not later than the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-three.	ment.
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3.    Section twenty-one of the principal Act is amended.

amended

(a)	by adding after the section number, "21", the subsection designation, "(1)";
(b)	by adding after paragraph (a) a paragraph as follows-

(aa) he has

(i)   completed a prescribed course of practical training of not less than two thousand hours duration with a pharmaceuti- cal chemist or chemists in accordance with such condi- tions as are prescribed and in premises that are approved by the Council; and

(ii)    passed all prescribed examina- tions or such examinations as in the opinion of the Council are substantially equivalent to those prescribed examinations; or

and

(c) by adding a subsection as f ollows:—

(2) A person who claims to be regis-

tered as a pharmaceutical chemist under this Act, by virtue of the qualification

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prescribed by paragraph (b) of subsec- tion (1) of this section, shall not be so registered, unless he proves to the satis- faction of the Council

(a) that-

(i)  the period that he is required by the paragraph to serve as an apprentice was duly served by him under a contract of apprenticeship which was made and endorsed by the Council in accordance with section twenty-two A of this Act, before the date of the coming into opera- tion of the Pharmacy and Poisons Act Amendment Act, 1962; and

(ii)  his service as such an apprentice under the con- tract commenced before that date; and

(b) that he obtained such qualifica- tion on or before the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-eight.

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amended. 4. Section twenty-two of the principal Act is

amended

(a)	by repealing subsections (1) and (2); and
(b)	by substituting for the passage, "under qualification (c)" in lines one and two of subsection (3), the passage, "by virtue of the qualification prescribed by paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section twenty-one of this Act".

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5. Subsection (1) of section fifty-three of the amended.

principal Act is amended by adding after paragraph

(d)	the following paragraphs-
(da) prescribing the conditions under which Conditions of training.

persons may undertake practical training for the purpose of qualifying to obtain registration as pharmaceutical chemists;

(db) prescribing the form of agreement to be Tor :agent

made between a pharmaceutical chemist relat ing to

and a student in relation to that practical

training;

(dc) prescribing the conditions and standards Conditions

to be complied with in places used for the in wIrls	used for
purpose of that practical training;	traing. in

(dd) prescribing the records to be kept and Records to be kept and

furnished in respect of that practical furnished.

training; .

6.    The Fourth Schedule to the principal Act is Ecterrule

repealed. repealed.