[ Act No. 3536, November 01, 1929 ]
AN ACT AMENDING SECTIONS SEVEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY-THREE AND TWENTY-SIX HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SIX OF ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-SEVEN HUNDRED AND ELEVEN, KNOWN AS THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE.
Be it enacted by the Semite and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:
Section 1. Section seven hundred and thirty-three of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, known as the Administrative Code, is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Section 733. Prerequisite qualifications for examination.- Any person applying for examination and for a certificate as pharmacist, shall prior to admission to examination, establish to the satisfaction of the Board:
"(a) That he is of good moral character and has completed the age of twenty-one years;
"(b) That he is registered in the office of the secretary of the Board as an apprentice in pharmacy at least three years before applying for examination;
"(c) That he has had at least three years' practical experience in a pharmacy where the prescriptions of physicians, dentists, or veterinarians are compounded and where drugs, medicines, and poisons are sold at retail;
"(d) That he has been graduated from a legally chartered school, college, or university in which professional pharmacy is taught for a period not less than four years of nine months' course each: Provided, That this provision shall be in force from the date of the examination in pharmacy to take place in July of nineteen hundred and thirty-four: Provided, further, That any person admitted to examination before the Board prior to the examination in pharmacy of July nineteen hundred and thirty-four may hereafter take the examination without fulfilling the requisites provided for in this paragraph; and
"(e) That he has satisfactorily completed the secondary course in a public high school or one duly recognized by the Government."
Section 2. Section twenty-six hundred and seventy-six of same Act is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Section 2676. General violation of Pharmacy Law.-Any person engaging in the practice of pharmacy in the Philippine Islands contrary to any provision of the Pharmacy Law or violating any provision of said law for which no specific penalty is provided shall, for each offense, be punished by a fine not to exceed five hundred pesos, or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or both, in the discretion of the court.1aшphi1
Section 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Approved, November 1, 1929.
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