Pharmacy Act 1954

19 Restrictions on use of certain titles, etc.

(1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (2) of section nine and subsection (1) of section ten of the Act of 1933 (which authorise the use of certain titles and descriptions by bodies corporate and by representatives of pharmaceutical chemists who have died or are under certain disabilities) it shall not be lawful for any person, unless he is a registered pharmaceutical chemist—

(a) to take or use any of the following titles, that is to say, pharmaceutical chemist, pharmaceutist, pharmacist, chemist and druggist, druggist, or member of the Pharmaceutical Society;

(b) to take or use, in connection with the sale of goods by retail, the title of chemist.

(2) Subject as aforesaid, it shall not be lawful for any person to use, in connection with any business, any title, emblem or description reasonably calculated to suggest that he or any person employed in the business possesses any qualification with respect to the selling, dispensing or compounding of drugs or poisons other than the qualification which he in fact possesses.

For the purposes of this subsection—

(a) the use of the description " pharmacy " in connection with a business carried on any premises shall be deemed to be reasonably calculated to suggest that the owner of the business and the person having the control of the business on those premises are registered pharmaceutical chemists; and

(b) the expression " dispensing " in relation to a poison has the same meaning as in the Act of 1933.

(3) If any person acts in contravention of the foregoing provisions of this section, he shall be liable on summary conviction, in respect of each offence, to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds and in the case of a continuing offence to a further fine not exceeding five pounds for every day subsequent to the day on which he is convicted of the offence during which the contravention continues.