THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 5, 1939.
"Medicine for the internal treatment of human ailments' includes any medicine to be administered by hypodermie injection, but does not include any mouth-wash, eye-drops, eye-lotion, ear-drops, douche or similar article;
"Sale exempted by section 21 of the Ordinance” means a sale made in such circumstances as to be entitled, except as provided by these Regulations, to exemption under section 21 of the Ordinance from the foregoing provisions of Part II of the Ordinance;
"Transaction exempted by section 20 of the Ordinance” means the supply of a medicine in such circumstances as to be entitled to exemption under section 20 of the Ordinance from the provisions of section 19 of the Ordinance;
(2) in these Regulations any reference to an alkaloid shall include a reference to any salt of that alkaloid, and, in a case where the esters of an alkaloid are included in the Poisons List by virtue of the words "its esters", to any esters of that alkaloid:
(3) any reference in the Lists to these Regulations to the percentage of a poison contained in any substance or preparation shall, unless otherwise expressly provided, be construed in the following manner, that is to say, a reference to a substance or preparation containing one per cent, of any poison means--
(a) in the case of a solid, that one gramme of the poison is contained in every one hundred grammes of the substance or preparation;
(b) In the case of a liquid, that one millilitre of the poison, or, if the poison itself is a solid, one gramme of the poison, is contained in every hundred millilitres of the substance or preparation;
and so in proportion for any greater or less percentage:
(4) the Interpretation Ordinance, 1911, applies for the purpose of the construction of these Regulations as it applies for the purpose of the construction of an Ordinance.
Application and Relaration of Part II of the Ordinance.
by shop-
3. It shall not be lawful for any shopkeeper to sell Restriction poisons on any premises used for or in connexion with his of sales retail business, notwithstanding that the sale is exempted by keepers. section 21 of the Ordinance, unless he complies with the provisions of paragraph (a) or paragraph (b), as the case may be, of section 19 (1) of the Ordinance.
Extension of
labelling provisions
and relaxa-
tion with
the Sixth
4.—(1) Subject as hereinafter provided, the provisions of paragraph (c) of section 19 (1) of the Ordinance and of Regulations 15 to 20 hereof (which provisions relate to the labelling of poisons) shall apply to sales exempted by section respect to 21 of the Ordinance, other than sales of poisons to be poisons in exported to purchasers outside the Colony of Hong Kong; and List. shall also apply to the supply of poisons (otherwise than on sale) in like manner as if references in the said provisions to the sale and the seller of poisons included references to the supply and the supplier of poisons respectively.
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