law: Pharmacy Act, 1948 
  31. Qualifications for entry on first register
   50  [A person who has
  
  attained the age of eighteen years shall be entitled] on payment of the
  
  prescribed fee to have his name entered in the first register if he resides, or
  
  carries on the business or profession of pharmacy, in the State and if he-
  (a) holds a degree or
  
  diploma in pharmacy or pharmaceutical chemistry or a chemist and druggist
  
  diploma of an Indian University or a State Government, as the case may be, or a
  
  prescribed qualification granted by an authority outside 51[***]
  
  India, or
  (b) holds a degree of
  
  an Indian University other than a degree in pharmacy or pharmaceutical
  
  chemistry, and has been engaged in the compounding of drugs in a hospital or
  
  dispensary or other place in which drugs are regularly dispensed on
  
  prescriptions of medical practitioners for a total period of not less than
  
  three years, or
  (c) has passed an
  
  examination recognized as adequate by the State Government of compounds or
  
  dispensers, or
  (d) has been engaged
  
  in the compounding of drugs in a hospital or dispensary or other place in which
  
  drugs are regularly dispensed on prescriptions of medical practitioners for a
  
  total period of not less than five years prior to the date notified under
  
  sub-section (2) of section 30.