Section 22, The Medical Practitioners, Dentists and Druggists Ordinance

(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor to provide for the Board of Examiners. examination of such candidates for licences as may desire to be examined, in accordance with rules to be made under section 40 of this Ordinance, and to establish a Board of Examiners which shall consist of the Director of Medical Services and other Medical Officers for the time being, together with such other person or persons, as the Governor may from. time to time 4 0 ( 195S. appoint. The Governor may revoke such appointments and fill vacancies in the Board. (2) The Director of Medical Services for the time being shall ~resident of be President of the Board, and the President, together with any oard. member of the Board, shall form a quorum. In the absence of the Director of Medical Services or for other necessary or reasonable cause, the senior Government Medical Officer shall preside at any meeting of the Board. (3) Examinations shall be held by the Board at Freetown in ~lace and the months of January and July in each year, and at such other !~~~:ation. places and times (if any) as the Director of Medical Services, with the consent of the Governor, in writing, shall direct. (4) The Board shall have power to examine all persons who Scope of examination. shall present themselves for examination under this Ordinance, as to their knowledge of drugs and poisons, and as to their ability to prepare and make up prescriptions and medicines, and as to their fitness 'to be entrusted with the sale of drugs and poisons: Provided always that such examinations shall not include the theory and practice of medicine, surgery, or midwifery, and the said Board may grant or refuse to such persons certificates in the form set forth in Schedule C: S.L.-VoL. III-25 When examination maybe dispensed with. Registrar. Duty of Registrar. Grant of licences to chemists, druggists dispensers. Expiry of licence. Provided also that the said Board may grant to any person who is a duly qualified pharmaceutical chemist or a chemist and druggist in the United Kingdom of Great Britain or in Ireland and is of good character and a fit and proper person to receive such certificate, a certificate in the form set forth in ~chedule C without requiring him to present himself for any examination and without payment of any fee.