Power to amend schedules.

Possession

and sale of poisons generally.

Compliance withi formularies.

Use of titles.

Labelling of poisons.

Entries to he made on sale of certain poisons.

Exemptions

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(.) the keeping, dispensing, and selling of poisons

by registered persons ;

(f) the issue of licences to wholesale dealers and auctioneers and the prescribing of the conditions of such licences;

(g) the payment of fees in respect of licences

granted to wholesale dealers;

(h.) the regulation of the sale, possession, importa-

tion and exportation of poisons ;

(.) the imposition of penalties not exceeding five hundred dollars on the violation of any of the conditions embodied in such licences or other- wise on breach of any regulation (except regulations as to the sale, possession, importa- tion or exportation of poison) made in pursuance of this section and the mode of recovery of the same;

(j.) generally for carrying out this Ordinance.

7. The Governor-in-Council shall have power 10 amend any of the schedules hereto in any manner whatso-

ever.

8. No person shall have in his possession, import, export, sell, or supply, any poison, or keep open shop for retailing, dispensing, or compounding poisons, unless he is authorised to do so by this Ordinance or by regulations made thereunder.

9. No registered person shall compound any medicine of the British Pharmacopoeia except according to the for- mularies thereof.

10. No person other than a registered person shall take, use or exhibit, with or without any addition, the name or title of chemist, druggist, pharmaceutical chemist, phar- maceutist or pharmacist.

11.-(1.) No person shall sell any poison, either by wholesale or retail, unless the box, bottle, vessel, wrapper or cover in which such poison is contained be distinctly labelled in English and Chinese with the name of the article and the word "Poison", and with the name and address of the seller of the poison.

(2.) For the purposes of this section the person on whose behalf any sale is made by any employee shall be deemed to bo the seller.

12. (1.) No person shall sell any of the poisons which are for the time being specified in Part I of Schedule A hereto to any person unknown to the seller unless intro- duced by some person known to the seller; and on every sale of any such article the seller shall, before delivery, make or cause to be made an entry in a book to be kept for that purpose stating, in the form set forth in Schedule B hereto, the date of the sale, the name and address of the purchaser, the name and quantity of the article sold, and the purpose for which it is stated by the purchaser to be required, to which entry the signature of the purchaser and of the person, if any, who introduced him shall be affixed.

(2.) For the purposes of this section the person on whose behalf any sale is made by any employee shall be deemed to be the seller.

13. The provisions of section 12 of this Ordinance shall from certain not apply-

provisions.

(1.) To wholesale dealers and auctioneers licensed

under this Ordinance; or

(2.) To any article when forming part of the ingre- dients of any medicine dispensed by a registered person on the prescription of some person included in sub-section (3) of this section; or

(3.) To any medicine supplied-

(a.) to his patient by a registered medical practi-

tioner; or

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