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3. Registered chemists and licensed wholesale dealers are obliged by law to keep records of sales and purchases. whereby the distribution and the ultimate destination of poisons can be traced. There is however, no such check upon the unregistered or unlicensed persons who import poisons for their own purposes.
4. It has been established that poisons are being import- ed and distributed in the Colony in a manner contrary to the interests of the general public. Proof that the existing law has been broken is difficult owing to the precautions taken by the persons concerned in the surreptitious distribution.
5. It is considered that the most effective way of prevent- ing abuse is to make the mere possession of Part I poisons unlawful, unless the possessor comes within one of the excep- tions in the new section 21A as enacted by this Bill.
J. A. FRASER,
Attorney General.
October, 1938.
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