Pharmacy Act, 1948
31. Qualifications for entry on first register
50 [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 51[***]
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 recognized as adequate by the State Government of compounds 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.