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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 5, 1939.
Labelling
of name of poison.
Labelling of particulars
as to
poison.
(2) Where the poison is contained in an ampoule, cachet, or similar article, it shall not be necessary to label the article itself, if every box or other covering in which the article is enclosed is duly labelled.
(3) Nothing in the said paragraph (c) or in Regulations 15 to 20 shall require the labelling of any transparent cover or any wrapper, hamper, packing case, crate or other cover- ing used solely for the purposes of transport or delivery.
16. (1) Subject as hereinafter provided, for the pur- poses of paragraph (c) (i) of section 19 (1) of the Ordinance and of paragraph (3) (a) of Regulation 25, the name of a poison shall be the term under which it is included in the Poisons List:
Provided that, where the said term describes a group of poisons and not the poison specifically, the name of the poison shall be-
(i) if the poison is the subject of a monograph in either the British Pharmacopoeia or the British Pharmaceutical Codex, one or other of the names or synonyms or abbreviat- ed names set out at the head of the monograph, and
or
(ii) in any other case, the accepted scientific name name descriptive of the true nature and origin of the poison.
(2) For the purposes aforesaid it shall, in the case of a preparation in the British Pharmacopoeia, or the Formulary of the British Pharmaceutical Codex or any dilution or admixture of such a preparation, or any surgical dressing for which a standard is described in the British Pharmaceutical Codex, be sufficient, notwithstanding anything in the foregoing paragraph of this Regulation, to state the name, synonym or abbreviated name used to describe the preparation or surgical dressing in the British Pharmacopoeia or the Formulary of the British Pharmaceutical Codex with the addition of the letters B.P., or B.P.C., as the case may be.
17.—(1) For the purposes of paragraph (e) (ii) of section 19 (1) of the Ordinance (which requires preparations proportions containing poisons to be labelled with the prescribed parti- culars as to the proportion of poison therein) the label of the container of any preparation containing a poison as one of its ingredients shall, subject as hereinafter provided, include a statement of the proportion which the poison bears to the total ingredients of the preparation.
(2) In the case of a preparation containing a poison specified in the first column of the Fourth List to these Regulations, it shall be sufficient to state on the label the particulars specified in the second column of that List against the description of the poison.
(3) In the case of a preparation or surgical dressing which is named in accordance with paragraph (2) of the last foregoing Regulation, it shall not be necessary to state on the label the proportion of the poison contained in the prepara- tion, and in the case of any dilution or admixture of such a preparation, it shall be sufficient to state the proportion which the preparation bears to the total ingredients of the dilution or admixture.
(4) Where the poison is in tablets, pills, cachets. capsules, lozenges or similar articles, or in ampoules, it shall