§ 29. Mr. WILLIAM BENNETTasked the Home Secretary if he will consider making an amendment to the Juries Acts, 1825 to 1922, extending the exemptions from jury service so as to include the exemption of qualified chemists and druggists?
§ Mr. CLYNESRegistered pharmaceutical chemists, if actually practising, are exempted from jury service by the Juries Act, 1870, and I do not see my way to propose legislation extending the exemption.
§ Mr. BENNETTIs my right hon. Friend aware that the Poison Acts and the Dangerous Drugs Acts impose considerable responsibility on chemists and druggists and that their personal presence in the shop is required by the law?
§ Mr. CLYNESThose are the reasons which have caused us to afford exemption in these cases.
§ Mr. BENNETTIs my right hon. Friend aware that it is only a small section of chemists, the pharmaceutical chemists, who are exempt, and that the ordinary pharmacist and druggist is not?
§ Mr. CLYNESIf there is any real grievance in the matter, I shall be glad to discuss it with my hon. Friend.