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Speech by the Secretary for Health and Welfare in the Legislative Council on Wednesday 25 March 1987
Sir,
I move the Motion standing in my name on the Order
Paper in respect of the Pharmacy and Poisons (Amendment)
Regulations 1987.
2.
Section 29 of the Pharmacy & Poisons Ordinance
(Cap. 138) empowers the Pharmacy and Poisons Board to make
regulations to provide for, among other things, the control of
the dispensing of pharmaceutical products. Such regulations
require the approval of this Council. The Pharmacy and
Poisons (Amendment) Regulations which are tabled were made by
the Board on 2 January 1987, and Members' approval is sought
accordingly.
3
When I introduced the Pharmacy and Poisons
(Amendment) Bill 1986 into this Council in July last year, I
said that the Government had accepted the recommendation of
the Working Party on the Practice of Pharmacy and Ancillary
Matters that prescriptions should be dispensed only by
qualified pharmacists engaged by authorized sellers of poisons
or in other approved outlets. Regulation 4 puts this
recommendation into practice by prohibiting listed sellers of
poisons from dispensing prescriptions.
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