592715-1939-Pharmacy-and-Poisons-Ord--1937--Regulations--Poisons- — Page 28

444

THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 5, 1939.

PART II.

Formaldehyde

Ammonia

Hydrochloric acid

Hydrofluoric acid; potassium fluoride; sodium fluoride; or sodium

silicofluoride

Nitric acid

Nitrobenzene

Phenols as defined in Part I of this list in substances but contain- ing less than 60% weight in weight of phenols; compounds of phenol with a metal in substances containing less than the equivalent of 60% weight in weight of phenols

Potassium hydroxide

Potassium quadroxalate

Sodium hydroxide

Sulphuric acid

Preparations, solutions, or admixtures retailed in the form as supplied by the manufacturer (which shall not include a listed seller) containing a poison within the meaning of the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, (excepting prepara- tions, solutions, or admixtures containing any poison appearing in the Third List in these regulations) where the proportion of such poison does not exceed 0.01% by weight of the total ingredients in the case of arsenic and strychnine and 0.1% in the case of other poisons.

Lysol and liquids similar to Lysol

The said substituted regulations and lists shall be incor- porated and printed in the edition of the Regulations of Hong Kong prepared under the Ordinances and Regulations of Hong Kong (1937 edition) Ordinance, Ordinance No. 51 of 1936, and shall come into force on the date on which approval of the volume of the Regulations of Hong Kong (1937 edition) containing the said regulations and lists is notified by pro- clamation under section 9 of Ordinance No. 51 of 1936.

T. MEGARRY,

Clerk of Councils.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

22nd December, 1938.

NOTE-The fundamental change effected by these regulations consists in the exclusion from Part II of the Poisons List of all Part I poisons so that a listed seller will no longer be entitled to retail any Part I poison except where it forms a very small proportion by weight of a preparation or mixture. This saving provision enables a shopkeeper who is a listed seller to retail certain proprietary preparations in common use.

2. New provisions are also made in respect of the supply and storage of poisons in institutions,

3. There are also supplementary provisions with respect to labelling, con- tainers and transport of poisons.

4. Records of every import, purchase or sale of poisons by licenced wholesale dealers must hereafter be kept.

5. Attention is invited to the arrangement of these regulations as given at the beginning hereof.