§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading, read.
THE EARL OF MILLTOWN, in moving that the Bill be now read a second time, said, that one or two alterations had been made in its provisions since it was introduced last Session. Public hospitals and dispensaries had been put in the clause as places where the qualification of three years' apprenticeship might be obtained. The discretionary power of the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain to dispense with that qualification, provided they were satisfied with the efficiency of the instruction which the candidates had obtained elsewhere, had been done away with. Another alteration was that the Bill should not come into operation until three years after next January, the object being that no wrong should be inflicted upon those who were now going through their apprenticeship course. But power would be given to make bye-laws which would come into operation next January. The Bill had received the unanimous assent of the Pharmaceutical Society, and it was entirely approved by the noble Viscount the Lord President of the Council (Viscount Cranbrook), who was unable to be present that evening.
§ Moved,"That the Bill be now read 2a—(The Earl of Milltown.)
§ Motion agreed to; Bill read 2a accordingly.