Pharmacy Regulations




Britain and the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland, as the
case may be;
(c.) Who holds a certificate or diploma of competency from any
college, Board of Pharmacy, or Pharmaceutical Society
recognized by the Board;
(d.) Who is a legally qualified medical practitioner
shall, on application in the form in the Second Schedule hereto, and
on payment of the prescribed fees, be entitled to be registered as a
pharmaceutical chemist in Samoa.
10. Every person who applies to be registered under the last preceding clause shall supply evidence satisfactory to the Board in support
of his application.
11. Every person who wilfully procures or attempts to procure
himself to be registered under this Order by means of any false or
fraudulent representation or declaration, and every person who aids or
assists therein, is liable to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.
12. Every person commits an offence who, not being a registered
chemist, in any way, directly or indirectly,
(a.) Uses the name or title or description of "registered chemist,"or "pharmaceutical chemist," "pharmaceutist," "chemist
and druggist," "dispensing chemist," "homoeopathic
chemist," or "chemist," or "druggist," or "pharmacy,"
whether with or without any other words; or
(b.) Holds himself out to the public as being the successor of, or
as having been connected with or in the employment of,
any registered chemist; or
(c.) Uses or exhibits any name, title, or sign holding out or
implying that he is a registered chemist.
13. Every person commits an offence who, not being a registered
chemist, in any way, directly or indirectly, carries on or attempts to
carry on the business of a chemist and druggist, or registered chemist,
or homoeopathic chemist, by keeping an open shop or place of business
unless such open shop or place of business is in charge of a duly
registered chemist.
14. Every registered chemist commits an offence who keeps or
permits to be kept under his name any open shop or place of business
as a chemist save under his own immediate supervision and control.
15. Every person who commits any of the offences referred to in
any of the three last preceding clauses is liable to a fine not exceeding
two pounds for every day on which such offence is committed.
16. The fees specified in the Third Schedule hereto shall be payable
in respect of the matters therein mentioned; Provided that the Administrator of Samoa may from time to time, by notice in the Western
Samoa Gazette, increase, diminish, or abolish such fees or any of them.
17. All fees received and all fines recovered under this Act shall be
paid to the Receiver of Revenue, and shall be duly accounted for by him
to the Samoan Treasurer.
18. Nothing in this Order—
(a.) Shall apply to, or interfere with, the business or rights or
privileges of—
(i.) Any legally qualified medical practitioner; or of
(ii.) Any legally qualified veterinary surgeon; or of
(iii.) Any person who, on the date of coming into
operation of this Order, is established in Apia in business
as a chemist;
(b.) Shall apply to any servant of the Samoan Administration or to
any other person who dispenses drugs by authority of the
Administrator of Samoa; nor
(c.) Shall apply to such patent or proprietary or homoeopathic or
other medicines or chemicals as are usually sold by grocers
or storekeepers.



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VUW Te Waharoa PDF NZ Gazette 1924, No 35


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🏥 Samoa Pharmacy Order, 1924 (continued from previous page)

🏥 Health & Social Welfare
13 May 1924
Pharmacy, Regulations, Samoa, Registration, Chemists