Act Number: 8

Act Name: The Pharmacy Act, 1948

Year: 1948

Enactment Date: 1948-03-04

Long Title: An Act to regulate the profession of pharmacy.

Ministry: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

Department: Department of Health and Family Welfare

Section 32: Qualifications for subsequent registration.
    (1) After the date appointed under sub-section (2) of section 30 and before the Education Regulations have, by or under section 11, taken effect in the State, 1[a person who has attained the age of eighteen years shall on payment of the prescribed fee] be entitled to have his name entered in the register if he resides or carries on the business or profession of pharmacy in the State and if he--
         (a) satisfies the conditions prescribed with the prior approval of the Central Council, or where no conditions have been prescribed, the conditions entitling a person to have his name entered on the first register as set out in section 31, or
         (b) is a registered pharmacist in another State, or
         (c) possesses a qualification approved under section 14:
     Provided that no person shall be entitled 2[under clause (a) or clause (c)] to have his name entered on the register unless he has passed a matriculation examination or an examination prescribed as being equivalent to a matriculation examination.
     (2) After the Education Regulations have by or under section 11 taken effect in the State, a person shall on payment of the prescribed fee be entitled to have his name entered on the register if he has attained the age of 3[eighteen years], if he resides, or carries on the business or profession of pharmacy, in the State and if he has passed an approved examination or possesses a qualification approved under section 14 4[or is a registered pharmacist in another State].
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 24 of 1959, s. 10, for "a person shall on payment of the prescribed fee" (w.e.f. 1-5-1960).
2. Subs. by Act 24 of 1959, s. 10, for "under this sub-section" (w.e.f. 1-5-1960).
3. Subs. by s. 10, ibid., for "twenty-one years" (w.e.f. 1-5-1960).
4. Ins. by s. 10, ibid. (w.e.f. 1-5-1960)
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