CAP. III. An Act to amend " The Newfoundland Dental Act, 1906." SECTION 1. Amendment as to paid assistants. [PASSED MARCH 22ND, 1910.] SECTION 2. Amendment as to character of E it enacted by the Governor, the Legislative Council Enacting clause. and the House of Assembly, in Legislative Session convened, as follows: 1 Section 6 of the said Act is hereby amended by adding Amendment as to thereto the following sub-section : (f.) The regulating and prescribing the nature of the paid assistants. 2. Section 16 of the said Act is hereby repealed and the Amendment as to following substituted therefor: This Act shall not apply to or be construed to extend to any duly qualified Medical Practitioner extract- Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prohibit paid character of work of paid unregistered assistants. Preamble. Enacting clause. Respecting the appointment of tical Board. CAP. IV. An Act Respecting the Pharmaceutical Society and the Sale of SECTION 1. Respecting the appointment of 2. Term of office of members of 3. Filling vacancies in Board. 5. Officers of Board. 6. Powers of Board. 7. Respecting the appointment of 8. Qualifications of Candidates for 9. Respecting the Register and 10. Medical Practitioners may be 11. Druggists at present in business may be registered. 12. Persons passing Examinations [PASSED 22ND MARCH, 1910.] [SECTION 13. Penalty for unregistered persons selling drugs. 14. Drug store to be in charge of registered person. 15. Penalty for violation of preceding sections. 16. Respecting regulations for the sale of poisons. 17. Charges for goods sold in contravention of Act not recoverable. 18. Respecting the incorporation of certain persons as "The Newfoundland Pharmaceutical Society. 19. Powers of Board by resolution to add to the schedule of poi sons. 20. Repealing section. HEREAS it is desirable to provide for the improvement of Pharmaceutical practice in this Colony. And whereas it is desirable to regulate the sale of Drugs. Be it therefore enacted by the Governor, the Legislative Council and the House of Assembly, in Legislative Session convened, as follows: 1. For the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this the Pharmaceu Act, the Governor in Council shall appoint a Board consisting of nine members, six of whom shall be members of the Newfoundland Pharmaceutical Society hereinafter referred to and nominated by the said Society, and three to be persons duly registered under this Act. The said Board shall be known as "The Newfoundland Pharmacy Board," in this members of 2. The members of the Board shall hold office for three Term of office of years or until voluntary resignation, subject to removal at Board. any time by the Governor in Council upon petition of seven members of the Board. 3. Vacancies in the Board shall be filled by the Governor Filling vacancies in Council. in Board. Board. 4. The Board shall in the month of January hold an Meetings of annual meeting at St. John's. At this meeting they shall appoint examiners and fix times for examinations for the ensuing year. Such other meetings as shall be necessary may also be called. At all meetings and for all purposes five members shall constitute a quorum. 5. The Board shall elect one of their members as Presi- Officers of dent, and another as Secretary-Treasurer, who shall be the Board. Registrar. The duties of the said officers and the remuneration to be paid them (if any) shall be determined by the Board. 6. The Board shall have power to make by-laws and re- Powers of Board, gulations not inconsistent with this Act for any of the fol lowing purposes: (a) The holding and conduct of examinations of candi- (b) The subjects upon which such candidates shall be (c) The regulation of its own meetings and proceedings. Respecting the 7. The number of examiners shall be five, who shall hold office for three years, but may be re-appointed, and shall be appointment of paid such fees as the Board shall determine. examiners. examination. 8. Every candidate shall satisfy the Board that he has Qualifications of duly served as assistant to a registered Druggist for not less candidates for than five years and that during two of these years he has been employed in dispensing prescriptions. He shall, before examination, pay to the Registar a fee of five dollars. Any Respecting the Registrar and duties of Registrar. Medical practitioners may be registered. Druggists at present in business may be registered. Persons passing examinations may be registered. Penalty for unregistered person selling drugs. person failing to pass the examination may at any time after the expiry of six months be re-examined without further fee 9. The Registrar shall keep a register of all persons who are entitled to registration and shall revise the same annually, and shall publish the list so revised in the month of January in the Royal Gazette. He shall receive all fees and give certificates of registration. 10. Every registered Medical Practitioner in the Colony shall be entitled to be registered by the Board and to receive a certificate upon payment of the prescribed fees. 11. Every Druggist at present engaged in the business of dispensing prescriptions and every person who has for a period of five years prior to the passing of this Act been an assistant to any such Druggist and employed during that time in dispensing prescriptions, shall be entitled to be registered upon payment of the prescribed fee without examination. 12. Every person who shall pass the prescribed examination shall be entitled to be registered upon payment of the said fee. The Board may, in its discretion, accept the certificate or diploma of any other competent examining body as sufficient evidence of qualification in lieu of such examination. The initial registration fee shall be five dollars and shall be paid to the Registrar on registration, and two dollars annually thereafter on or before the 31st day of December for the following year. 13. No person shall sell or attempt to sell or expose for sale or keep open shop for retailing, dispensing or compounding any of the drugs or medicines mentioned in the Schedule A. to this Act, or which may hereafter under the provisions of this Act be added to the said schedule, or assume or use the title of chemist and druggist, or druggist, or pharmacist, or pharmaceutist, or dispensing chemist or druggist, or apothecary, or shall call his place of business a drug store, or pharmacy, unless such person is registered under the provisions of this Act; provided that this section shall not prevent the sale of any such articles by wholesale in market packages nor of any of the articles known as patent medicines. 14. Every shop for the sale or the compounding of drugs Drag store to be shall be in charge of a person registered under this Act. in charge of registered person. 15 Any person who violates any of the provisions of the Penalty for next two preceding sections shall be liable to a penalty of violation of preceding not less than twenty-five nor exceeding fifty dollars, to be sections. recovered in a summary manner by complaint before a stipendiary magistrate and paid to the Registrar for the use of the Board. 16. It shall be unlawful to sell any poison named in the Respecting Schedule A. hereto either by wholesale or retail unless the the sale of regulations for box, bottle wrapper or cover in which such poison is conpoisons. tained be distinctly labelled with the name of the article and the word "poison," and with the name and address of the seller of the poison; and it shall be unlawful to sell any poison of those which are in the first part of said schedule or may be hereafter added thereto under the provisions hereof to any person unknown to the seller unless introduced by some person known to the seller; and on every sale of any such article the seller shall, before delivery, make or cause to be made an entry in a book to be kept for that purpose stating the date of the sale, the name and address of the purchaser, the name and quantity of the article sold, and the purpose for which it is stated by the purchaser to be required, to which entry the signature of the purchaser and of the person (if any) who introduces him shall be affixed; but the provisions of this section shall not apply to any article when forming part of the ingredients of any medicine dispensed by a person registered under this Act, provided that such medicine be labelled as aforesaid with the name and address of the seller and that the ingredients thereof be entered, with the name of the person to whom it |