Under the Medical Practitioners Act of 1927 the same representation remains to Ireland on the General Medical Council as before. This is the body under whose direction the British Pharmacopoeia is prepared. The pharmacopoeia is the list of medicines and compounds in most general use, particularly those whose safe and effective use requires that the manner of their preparation and the weights and measures in which they are to be mixed shall be precisely stated and followed. Under the Medical Practitioners Act of 1927 the greater part of the Medical Acts as they affected the Free State were repealed. I am informed that as a result of the repeal of these Acts there is not at the present time any statutory provision for a pharmacopoeia here. It is necessary to have it. This Bill proposes that the British Pharmacopoeia shall be the Saorstát Pharmacopoeia, subject to such modification or amendment as may be made therein by rule made by the Medical Registration Council in the Free State.
Pharmacopoeia Bill, 1931—Second Stage.
Question proposed: That the Bill be now read a Second Time.
Question put and agreed to.
Committee Stage ordered for Wednesday, 1st July.