Section 31:
Qualifications for entry on first register.
1[A person who has attained the age of eighteen
years shall be entitled] on payment of the prescribed fee to have his name entered in the first register if he
resides, or carries on the business or profession of pharmacy, in the State and if he--
(a) holds a degree or diploma in pharmacy or pharmaceutical chemistry or a chemist and druggist
diploma of an Indian University or a State Government, as the case may be, or a prescribed
qualification granted by an authority outside 2*** India, or
(b) holds a degree of an Indian University other than a degree in pharmacy or pharmaceutical
chemistry, and has been engaged in the compounding of drugs in a hospital or dispensary or other
place in which drugs are regularly dispensed on prescriptions of medical practitioners for a total
period of not less than three years, or
(c) has passed an examination recognised as adequate by the State Government for compounders
or dispensers, or
(d) has been engaged in the compounding of drugs in a hospital or dispensary or other place in
which drugs are regularly dispensed on prescriptions of medical practitioners for a total period of not
less than five years prior to the date notified under sub-section (2) of section 30.
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 24 of 1959, s. 9, for "A person shall be entitled" (w.e.f. 1-5-1960).
2. The words "the Provinces of" omitted by the A.O. 1950.