Amendment of section 3
of the
Principal Ordinance.
Amendment of section 4 of the
Principal
Ordinance.
Amendment
of section 6 of the
Principal Ordinance.
Repeal of
section 9 of the Principal Ordinance and substi- tution of new section therefor.
Repeal of section 9 of the Principal Ordinance and substitu- tion of new section therefor.
l'enalty.
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to disclose the name or address of any informer or to state auy matter which might lead to his discovery, and if any books documents or papers which are in evidence or liable to inspection in any civil or criminal proceeding contain any entry in which any such informer is named or described or which might lead to his discovery, the Court or Magis- trate shall cause all such passages to be concealed from view or to be obliterated so far as may be necessary to protect the informer from discovery, but no further.
(2.) But if in any proceedings before a Magistrate for any offence against any provision of this Ordinance the Magistrate after full inquiry into the case believes that the informer wilfully made in his information a material state-
ment which he knew or believed to be false or did not
believe to be true or if in any other proceeding the Court or Magistrate is of opinion that justice cannot be fully done between the parties thereto without the discovery of the informer it shall be lawful for the Court or Magistrate to requite the production of the original information and to permit inquiry and require full disclosure concerning the informer.
13. Scetion 3 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the insertion in the seventh and eleventh lines respectively after the words "Pharmacy Act 1868" of the words "or a duly registered Pharmaceutical Chemist within the meaning of the Pharmacy Act (Ireland) 1875”.
14. Section 4 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended as follows:--
(a.) In line 6 by the insertion after the words "Pharmacy Art 1868" of the words "or the Pharmacy Act (Ireland) 1875".
(b.) In line 12 by the substitution of the word
"Acts" for "Act".
15. Section 6 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended as follows :-
(1.) By the insertion after paragraph (g) of the
following paragraph :-
"(h.) The regulation of the sale, possession,
importation and exportation of poison." (2.) By the insertion in paragraph (h) in line 1 after the word "penalties" of the words "not exceeding five hundred dollars".
(3.) By the re-lettering of paragraphs (h) and (i)
to read (i) and (j) respectively.
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16. Section 9 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :- 9. The several articles named or described in the Schedule A to this Ordinance shall be declared to be poisons within the meaning of this Ordinance and the Governor-in-Council may from time to time amend the Schedule by adding thereto or removing therefrom any arti- ele or by transferring any article from one part of this Schedule to the other part, and any such amendinent of such Schedule shall be published in the Gazette.”
17. Section 15 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby repealed and the following substituted therefor :-
15. Nothing in this Ordinance contained shall be construed as affecting the provisions of the Opium Ordinance, 1909.”
18. Every person who shall in contravention of this Ordinance conceal or deposit any poison as defined by section 2 or who shall sell expose or offer for sale any such poison in contravention of the Principal Ordinance or who shall fail to conform with any regulation made there- under as to the sale, possession, importation or exportation of such poison as aforesaid shall in lieu of any penalty prescribed by the Principal Ordinance be liablo ou convic- tion to a penalty not exceeding two thousand dollars or in default of payment to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any period not exceeding twelve months and all poison in respect of which an offence has been committed shall be forfeited; but nothing in this Ordinance contained shall prevent any person from being liable to any other penalty, damages or punishment to which he would have been subject if this Ordinance had not been passed.
Such penalty shall be recoverable summarily before a Magistrate.