Registration of pharmaceutical chemists
3 Qualification by examination for registration.
(1)
It shall be the duty of the Council to appoint examiners to hold examinations for the purposes of this Act (including separate examiners for Scotland to hold examinations at such place or places in Scotland as the Council determine); but the appointment of any person as such an examiner shall not—
(a)
take effect until it is approved by the Privy Council;
(b)
continue in force for more than five years from the date on which it is made.
(2)
Such examination fee as is prescribed shall be payable to the Society by every candidate at any such examination.
(3)
It shall be the duty of the Society to permit any person appointed in that behalf by the Privy Council to be present throughout any such examination.
(4)
The subjects at any such examination shall be the latin language, botany, materia medica, pharmaceutical and general chemistry and such other subjects (excluding the theory and practice of medicine, surgery and midwifery) as are prescribed; and byelaws may provide—
(a)
for periods of time and courses of study in connection with such examinations and for dividing such examinations into two or more parts;
(b)
that no person may be a candidate at any such examination unless he satisfies the Council that he has received such a general education as the Council consider adequate for a registered pharmaceutical chemist;
(c)
that no such certificate as is mentioned in the next following subsection shall be granted to any person in consequence of any such examination unless he satisfies the Council that he has received such practical training in the subjects of the examination as the Council consider adequate.
(5)
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this section, the examiners may grant a certificate of competence to practise as a pharmaceutical chemist to any person who satisfies them at any such examination that he is competent so to practise; and a person to whom such a certificate is granted shall be qualified to have his name registered.