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(b) to carry on at the shop the business of retailing, dispensing, or compounding any such drug.
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subject to the power of the Superintendent to withdraw the authorisation in the case of a person who has been convicted of an offence against this Ordinance, and who cannot, in the opinion of the Superintendent, properly be allowed to carry on the business of manufacturing or selling or distributing, as the case may be, any such drug.
(3) All regulations made under this Ordinance shall be laid on the table of the Legislative Council at the first meeting thereof held after the publication in the Gazette of the making of such regulations, and if a resolution is passed at the first meeting of the Legislative Council held after such regulations have been laid on the table of the said Council resolving that any such regulation shall be rescinded, or amended in any manner whatsoever, the said regulation shall, without prejudice to anything done thereunder, be deemed to be rescinded, or amended, as the case may be, as from the date of publication in the Gazette of the passing of such resolution.
(4) Nothing in any regulation made under this section shall be taken to authorise the sale, or the keeping of an open shop for the retailing, dispensing, or compounding of. poisons by any person who is not qualified in that behalf under, or otherwise than in accordance with, the provisions of the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, 1916, or to be in derogation of the provisions of the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, 1916, for prohibiting, restricting, or regulating the sale of poisons.
5.-1) The drugs to which this Ordinance applies are :- (a) medicinal opium;
(b) any extract or tincture of Indian hemp;
(c) morphine and its salts, and diacetylmorphine (com- monly known as diamorphine or heroin) and the other esters of morphine and their respective salts;
(d) cocaine (including synthetic cocaine) and ecgorme and their respective salts, and the esters of ecgonine and their respective salts;
(e) any solution or dilution of morphine or cocaine or their salts an inert substance whether liquid or solid. containing any proportion of morphine or cocaine, and any preparation, admixture, extract or other substance (not being such a solution or dilution as aforesaid) containing not less than one-fifth per cent, of morphine or one-tenth per cent. of cocaine or of ecgonine:
extract or other (f) any preparation, admixture. substance containing any proportion of diacetylmorphine:
(g) dihydrohydroxycodeinone, dihydrocodeinone, dihy- dromorphinone, acetyldihydrocodeinone, dihydromorphine, their esters and the salts of any of these substances and of their esters, morphine-N-oxide (commonly known genomorphine), the morphine-N-oxide derivatives and any other pentavalent nitrogen morphine derivatives:
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(h) thebaine and its salts, and (with the exception of methylmorphine, commonly known as codeine, and ethylmor- phine, commonly known as dionin, and their respective salts) benzylmorphine and the other ethers of morphine and their respective salts;
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