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§203 Application for license; requirements; qualifications for license

Title 21 › Chapter CHAPTER 7— - PRACTICE OF PHARMACY AND SALE OF POISONS IN CONSULAR DISTRICTS IN CHINA › § 203

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

People who owe permanent allegiance to the United States and want to be pharmacists in U.S. consular districts in China must file a sworn application with the consul. The application must give name, age, pharmacy education and supervised prescription experience, and proof of good moral character and no addiction to alcohol or drugs. Applicants must be at least 21 and have either four years’ pharmacy practice, three years’ training under a licensed pharmacist, or a diploma from a pharmacy school recognized by the board of State, Territory, District of Columbia, or U.S. possession.

Full Legal Text

Title 21, §203

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Every person whose permanent allegiance is due to the United States desiring to practice as a pharmacist in the consular districts in China shall file with the consul an application, duly verified under oath, setting forth the name and age of the applicant, the place or places at which he pursued and the time spent in the study of pharmacy, the experience which the applicant has had in compounding physicians’ prescriptions under the direction of a licensed pharmacist, and the name and location of the school or college of pharmacy, if any, of which he is a graduate, and shall submit evidence sufficient to show to the satisfaction of said consul that he is of good moral character and not addicted to the use of alcoholic liquors or narcotic drugs so as to render him unfit to practice pharmacy. Applicants shall be not less than twenty-one years of age and shall have had at least four years’ experience in the practice of pharmacy or shall have served three years under the instruction of a regularly licensed pharmacist, and any applicant who has been graduated from a school or college of pharmacy recognized by the proper board of his State, Territory, District of Columbia, or other possession of the United States as in good standing shall be entitled to practice upon presentation of his diploma.

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Editorial Notes

Codification The words “now practicing as a pharmacist or,” which preceded “desiring to practice” in the original text of this section, were omitted as obsolete.

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21 U.S.C. § 203

Title 21Food and Drugs

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73