Prohibitions
and regula- tions with respect to sale of poisons.
23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 25, s. 18.
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19.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Part of this Ordinance it shall not be lawful-
(a) for a person to sell any poison included in Part I of the Poisons List unless-
(i) he is an authorised seller of poisons; and
(ii) the sale is effected on premises duly registered under Part I of this Ordinance; and
(iii) the sale is effected by, or under the supervision of, a registered pharmacist;
(b) for a person to sell any poison included in Part II of the Poisons List, unless either-
(i) he is an authorised seller of poisons and the sale is effected on premises duly registered under Part I of this Ordinance; or
(ii) his name is entered in the registrar's list, and the sale is effected on premises specified in that list as being premises on which he is entitled, subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, to sell poisons included in Part II of the Poisons List;
(c) for a person to sell any poison, whether included in Part I or in Part II of the Poisons List, unless the container of the poison is labelled in the prescribed manner-
(i) with the name of the poison; and
(ii) in the case of a preparation which contains a poison as one of the ingredients thereof, with the prescribed parti- culars as to the proportion which the poison contained in the preparation bears to the total ingredients; and
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(iii) with the word poison or other prescribed in- dication of the character of the article; and
(iv) with the name of the seller of the poison and the address of the premises on which it was sold.
(2) Subject to the provisions of this Part and to any regulations made under this Ordinance dispensing with or relaxing any of the requirements of this sub-section-
(a) it shall not be lawful to sell any poison included in Part I of the Poisons List to any person unless that person is either
(i) certified in writing in the manner prescribed by regulations, and by a person authorised by regulations to give a certificate for the purposes of this section; or
(ii) known by the seller or by some registered pharmacist in the employment of the seller at the premises where the sale is effected,
to be a person to whom the poison may properly be sold:
(b) the seller of any such poison shall not deliver it until-
(i) he has made or caused to be made an entry, in a book to be kept for that purpose, stating, in the form prescribed by regulations, the date of the sale, the name and address of the purchaser and of the person, if any, by whom the certi- ficate required under paragraph (a) of this sub-section was given, the name and quantity of the article sold, and the purposes for which it is stated by the purchaser to be re- quired; and
(ii) the purchaser has affixed his signature to the entry aforesaid.