THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 13, 1935. 1195

Provided that the provisions of paragraph (4) shall not apply to any drug supplied to a person for his use by a registered medical practitioner or in accordance with a prescription if that person was at the time of the supply in course of receiving treatment from another registered medical practitioner in respect of addiction to any of the drugs or otherwise and of being supplied with any of the drugs by or on a prescription given by that last mentioned practitioner, and did not disclose the fact to the first mentioned practitioner before the drug was supplied to him.

Marking of packages or bottles.

9.-(1) No person shall supply any drug to which these. regulations apply unless the package or bottle containing it is plainly marked with the amount of the drug in the package or bottle.

(2) No person shall supply any preparation, admixture, extract, or other substance containing any of these last- mentioned drugs and coming within these regulations unless the package or bottle is plainly marked-

(a) in the case of a powder, solution, or ointment, with the total amount thereof in the package or bottle and the percentage of the drug in the powder, solution, or ointment;

(b) in the case of tablets or other articles, with the amount of the drug in each article and the number of articles in the package or bottle.

This regulation shall not apply to any preparation dis- pensed by a duly qualified medical practitioner or on the prescription of a duly qualified medical practitioner.

Records.

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10. Every person who supplies any of the drugs shall comply with the following provisions:-

(1) He shall enter or cause to be entered in a register kept for the sole purpose all supplies of the drug purchased or otherwise obtained by him and all dealings in the drug effected by him (including sales or supplies to persons out- side the Colony) in the form and containing the particulars shown in Schedule I to these regulations.

(2) Separate registers or separate parts of the register shall be used for (a) cocaine and ecgonine and substances containing them, (b) morphine and substances containing it, (c) esters of morphine and substances containing them, (d) dihydromorphinone and substances containing it, (e) acetyldihydrocodeinone and substances containing it, (f) diamorphine and substances containing it, (g) benzoyl- morphine and substances containing it, (h) dihydro- oxycodeinone and substances containing it, (i) dihydroco- deinone and substances containing it, and () medicinal opium: Provided that with the approval of the Superintendent separate registers may be kept for separate departments of a business.

(3) He shall make the entry with respect to any of the drugs purchased or otherwise obtained by him on the day on which the drug is received, and with respect to any sale

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