Chemist and Druggist licensed under the Drugs and cosmetics Rules, 1945 made under the Drugs and cosmetics Act, 1940 shall not exceed two where there is one registered pharmacist engaged in the work in which the student pharmacist is under going practical training, where there is more than one registered pharmacist similarly engaged, the number shall not exceed one for each additional such registered pharmacist. Hospital and Dispensary other than those specified in sub regulation(1)for the purpose of giving practical training shall have to be recognized by pharmacy council of India on fulfilling the conditions specified in Appendix-D to these regulations.

In the course of practical training, the trainees shall have exposure to: Working knowledge of keeping of records required by various acts concerning the profession of pharmacy and Practical experience in the manipulation of pharmaceutical apparatus in common use, the reading, translation and copying of prescription including checking of dose, the dispensing of prescriptions illustrating the commoner methods of administering medicaments; the storage of drugs and medical preparations. The practical training shall be not less than five hundred hours spread over a period of not less than three months provided that not less than two hundred and fifty hours and devoted t actual dispensing of prescriptions.

Procedure to be followed prior to commencing of the training:

The head of the academic training institution, shall supply application in triplicate in' Practical Training Contract Form for Qualification as pharmacist' to candidate cligible to under-take the said practical training, the contract form shall be as specified in Appendix-E to these regulations

The head of an academic training institution shall fill section I of the contract Form. The trainee shall fill section II of the said contract Form and the Head of the institution agreeing to impart the training (hereinafter referred to as the Apprentice Master) shall fill section III of the said contract Form. It shall be the responsibility of the trainee to ensure that one copy (hereinafter referred to as the first copy of the co atract Form)so filled is submitted to Head of the academic training institution and the other two copies(hereinafter referred to as the second copy and the third copy)shall be filled with Apprentice Master(if he so desires)or with the trainee pending completion of the training

Certificate of Passing Diploma in Pharmacy(part-III) on satisfactory completion of the apprentice period, the Apprentice Master shall fill Section IV of the second copy and third copy of contract form and cause it to be sent to the head to the academic training institution who shall suitably enter in the first copy of the entries from the second copy and third copy and sHall fill section V of the three copies of contract form and thereafter handover both the second copy and the third copy to the trainee. Thus, if completed in all respect, shall be regarded as a certificate of having successfully completed the course of Diploma in Pharmacy (part-III).