DANGEROUS DRUGS.
No. 22 of 1923.
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(b) to carry on at the shop the business of retailing, dispensing, or compounding any such drug,
subject to the power of the Superintendent to withdraw the authorisation in the case of a person who has been convicted of an offence against this Ordinance, and who cannot, in the opinion of the Superintendent, properly be allowed to carry on the business of manufacturing or selling or distributing, as the case may be, any such drug.
(3) All regulations made under this Ordinance shall be laid on the table of the Legislative Council at the first meeting thereof held after the publication in the Gazette of the making of such regulations, and if a resolution is passed at the first meeting of the Legislative Council held after such regulations have been laid on the table of the said Council resolving that any such regulation shall be rescinded, or amended in any manner whatsoever, the said regulation shall, without prejudice to anything done thereunder, be deemed to be rescinded, or amended, as the case may be, as from the date of publication in the Gazette of the passing of such resolution.
(4) Nothing in any regulations made under this section shall be taken to authorise the sale, or the keeping of an open shop for the retailing, dispensing, or compounding of, poisons by any person who is not qualified in that behalf under, or otherwise than in accordance with, the provisions of the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, 1916, or to be in derogation of the provisions of the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, 1916, for prohibiting, restricting, or regulating the sale of poisons.
5.-(1) The drugs to which this Ordinance applies are morphine, cocaine, ecgonine, and diamorphine (commonly known as heroin), and their respective salts, and medicinal opium (that is to say, raw opium which has been artificially dried), and any preparation, admixture, extract, or other substance containing not less than one-fifth per cent. of morphine or one-tenth per cent. of cocaine, ecgonine or diamorphine.
(2) For the purpose of sub-section (1), the percentage in the case of morphine shall be calculated as in respect of anhydrous morphine.