THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 5, 1939.
(c) if the article sold is sent by post, it must be sent by registered post;
(d) the seller must insert in the entry prescribed by Regulation 36 of these Regulations the words "signed order" and a reference number by which the order can be identified :
Provided that where a person represents that he urgently requires a poison for the purpose of his trade, business or profession, the seller may, if he is reasonably satisfied that the person so requires the poison and is, by reason of some emergency, unable before delivery either to furnish to the seller an order in writing duly signed or to attend and sign the entry in the book, deliver the poison to the purchaser on an undertaking by the purchaser to furnish such an order within the twenty-four hours next following.
If any purchaser by whom any such undertaking has been given fails to deliver to the seller a signed order in accordance with the undertaking, or if any person for the purpose of obtaining delivery of any poison under the foregoing proviso makes a statement which is to his knowledge false, he shall be deemed to have contravened the provisions of this Regulation.
(4) Such of the provisions of this Regulation as require the purchaser to state his trade, business or profession and the seller to be satisfied with respect thereto, shall not apply in the case of a sale to any hospital, infirmary, dispensary or clinic, and for the reference in the proviso to the foregoing paragraph to the purposes of the purchaser's trade, business or profession, there shall be substituted, in the case of any such sale, a reference to the purposes of medical, dental or veterinary treatment.
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6. The requirements mentioned in section 20 (3) of the Relaxation Ordinance (which requires particulars of medicines supplied or 20 (3) in dispensed under that section to be entered in a book) need the case of not be satisfied in the case of any medicine, not being a medicines. substance included in the First List to these Regulations, which is supplied by
(a) a registered medical practitioner for the purposes of medical treatment; or
(b) an authorized seller of poisons on and in accordance with a prescription given by a registered medical practitioner.
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7. The requirements mentioned in section 19 (2) of the Farther Ordinance (which contains restrictions as to the persons to relaxation whom Part I poisons may be sold and other conditions attached 19 (2) in to such sales) need not be satisfied in the case of the sale by the case an authorized seller of a preparation containing any poison in preparations Part I of the Poisons List put up for sale in a form im- for the mediately ready for use for the destruction of noxious of noxious insects, and the following requirements shall have effect in lien thereof :-
(a) the seller must record in the Poisons Book the quantity of such form of preparation supplied, the date of supply and the name of the person to whom supplied;
(b) the preparation must conform in all respects with th requirements as to labelling contained in the Ordinance on these regulations:
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