Section 1: Establishment of the Pharmacists Council of Nigeria.

(1) There is hereby established a body to be known as the Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (in this Act referred to as "the Council") which shall be a body corporate under that name and be charged with the general duty of-
(a) determining the standard of knowledge and skill to be attained by persons seeking to become registered members of the pharmacy profession (in this Act referred to as "the profession") and reviewing those standards, from time to time, as circumstances may require;
(b) securing. in accordance with the provisions of this Act, the establishment and maintenance of registers of persons entitled to practice as members of the profession and the publication, from time to time, of lists of those persons;
(c) reviewing and preparing from time to time, a statement as to the Code of Conduct which the Council considers desirable for the practise of the pharmacy profession;
(d) regulating and controlling the practice of the profession in all its aspects and ramifications;
(e) performing such other functions as may be required of the Council under this Act; and
(2) The Council shall have perpetual succession an a common seal which shall be kept in such custody as the Council may, from time to time, authorise.