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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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for payment by Deputy Registrars shall be certified by one of the members for the district.

Deputy Registrars shall keep on hand and supply to applicants the forms of application required by these regulations. They shall act in conjunction with the members for their respective districts in all matters referred to them by the Registrar, and endeavour to insure the satisfactory working of the Pharmacy Act in their respective districts.

Auditor.

16. The Board shall, in the month of January in each year, appoint a fit and proper person as auditor, who shall hold office until the last day of December of the same year; and may pay out of the moneys accruing under the Act a fee not exceeding two guineas to such auditor.

The auditor shall inspect the books and accounts of the Board, examine the annual balance-sheet prepared by the Registrar, and certify to the same if correct. He shall also investigate and examine all accounts and vouchers relating to or concerning the same which may be in the possession of the Registrar, examine the bank pass-book and ascertain that it corresponds with the account of the Board in the bank, and present an annual report to the Board stating the result of his inspection and examination.

Proceedings of the Board.

17. The President shall be elected by a majority of the members present at the first regular meeting of the Board in the month of January in each year; and if, for want of a quorum, or from any other cause, a meeting shall not be held, he shall be elected at the next meeting, seven days’ notice having been given by the Registrar to each member of the Board.

18. The Board shall meet at its office on the second Tuesday of every month, at 10.30 a.m., or on such other day and hour as may be decided by the Board, and on such other days and at such times as the President or any two members of the Board shall desire by requisition in writing addressed to the Registrar, who shall thereupon send proper notice to all members of the Board.

19. If at the expiration of twenty minutes after the hour appointed for the meeting there shall not be a quorum, the meeting shall lapse.

20. At every meeting of the Board the first business shall be the reading and confirmation of the minutes of the previous meeting, and no discussion shall be permitted thereon except as to the accuracy of such minutes as a record of the proceedings. The minutes, when confirmed, shall be signed by the President or Acting-President. After signing the minutes the order of business shall be as follows, unless altered by resolution of the Board:—

Reading copies of letters sent by authority of the Board.

Reading letters received, and considering and ordering thereon.

Presentation of reports of committees, consideration and adoption thereof.

Accounts for payment.

Ordinary business, including postponed and former notices of motion.

New rules and amended regulations, of which twenty-eight days of notice has been given.

Any other business that may be properly brought before the Board.

21. Notices of motions or resolutions intended to be proposed at any meeting of the Board shall be given to the Registrar in writing at least seven days prior to such meeting. Notices so delivered shall be embodied in the business paper to be forwarded to all members of the Board.

22. The Board may from time to time appoint from amongst themselves any committee, and may by resolution at any time discharge a committee so appointed. The President shall ex officio be a member of all committees, and if present preside.

23. No member of the Board shall be Registrar or auditor.

24. The common seal of the society shall be deposited in the office of the Board in charge of the Registrar, and used by the Registrar only in the presence of a member, when authorised by resolution, and entered upon the minutes of the proceedings of the Board. The member of the Board so present and the Registrar shall certify to the seal by their signatures.

25. The members of the Board for districts other than the central district shall be allowed to absent themselves from any ordinary or special meeting, unless requested to attend by notice from the Registrar at least thirty days before such meeting.

Examinations.

26. The Board shall from time to time appoint examiners, who may receive such fees as the Board determines.

The examiners shall meet for the purpose of conducting examinations at such times as may be directed by the Board, and report the result of every examination to the Board at its next meeting.

27. (1.) On and after the 1st January, 1901, the standard examination of the Board shall consist of two sections—viz., A and B. Candidates applying for the Board’s certificate of competency must pass an examination in the following subjects:—

Section A.—Latin, English, arithmetic, elementary science.

Section B.—Materia Medica, botany, chemistry, practical chemistry, pharmacy, practical pharmacy.

A. (1.) Latin.—Translate into English and parse sentences from Cæsar’s Commentaries, Book I.

(2.) English.—Grammar, including orthography and parsing, dictation, and composition.

(3.) Arithmetic.—The first four rules, proportion, vulgar and decimal fractions, British and Metric weights and measures.

(4.) Elementary Science.—Easy questions on non-metals and atomic theory (Kemshead or Jago); elementary botany (Snaith or Oliver).

B. (1.) Materia Medica.—Recognition of specimens of B.P. drugs, description of their characters and active principles, knowledge of the sources from which they are obtained, their natural orders, and the official preparations into which they enter, and to judge the quality and freedom from adulteration or otherwise of the specimens submitted. (Squire’s “Companion” and Bentley’s “Organic Materia Medica.”)

(2.) Botany.—Elementary knowledge of general morphology, anatomy, and physiology; principles of classification; description of specimens in botanical terms; knowledge of the vascular cryptogams; and to distinguish between the following twelve orders: Compositæ, Labiatæ, Papaveraceæ, Rutaceæ, Cruciferæ, Leguminosæ, Solanaceæ, Graminaceæ, Myrtaceæ, Ranunculaceæ, Rosaceæ, Umbelliferæ.

(3.) Chemistry and Practical Chemistry.—Elementary laws, organic and inorganic chemistry (particularly of the B.P. substances), qualitative analysis (including B.P. tests, and volumetric analysis), and to submit to practical examination therein; urinalysis.

(4.) Pharmacy and Practical Pharmacy.—Translation of Latin prescriptions, detection of dangerous doses, compounding and dispensing; explanation of the processes of making B.P. preparations. Antidotes.

(2.) Candidates may take at the one examination the subjects required for (1) both Sections A and B, (2) Section A only, or (3) Section B only, provided a pass has previously been obtained in Section A.

But at the one sitting 50 per cent. of the total number of marks in each subject of either section must be obtained in order to gain a pass in that section.

(3.) If a candidate lodges with the Registrar a certificate that he has passed the Matriculation Examination of any University or the Junior Civil Service Examination of New Zealand (provided that Latin be included), or any other examination approved by the Board, he shall not be required to pass in Section A.

(4.) Persons who before the 1st January, 1899, were serving as apprentices with registered pharmaceutical chemists in the Colony of New Zealand upon application to the Registrar, and on producing indentures, or, where no such are signed, a declaration from their employer to the effect that the person named has entered into an agreement to be an apprentice, shall not be required to pass in Section A if such application is lodged with the Registrar before the 1st January, 1901.

(5.) The following text-books are approved by the Board: Snaith’s or Joseph Oliver’s Botany, Thomson’s Botany, Prantl and Vine’s Botany, Jago’s or Kemshead’s Chemistry, Attfield, B.P., Squire’s Companion, Cripp’s Pharmacy, Bentley’s Organic Materia Medica.

28. Examinations shall be held half-yearly—viz., on the third Wednesday and following day or days in the months of April and October in each year—and shall take place at Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin, or at the discretion of the Board. Candidates for examination must signify to the Registrar or Deputy Registrar for their respective districts their intention to present themselves, and also pay the prescribed fee thirty days prior to the date of examination; and furnish evidence by statutory declaration, duly stamped, that they have attained the age of eighteen years.

Lost Certificates.

29. Upon a declaration being made before a Justice of the Peace to the effect that a certificate issued by the Board has been lost or accidentally destroyed, the loser may, upon application to the Board, and on the payment of a fee of 10s. 6d., be supplied with a copy of his certificate as it appears on the Register; but under no circumstances will a second certificate be issued.