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Business carried on by body corporate.
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Penalties.
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No. 9 of 1916.
PHARMACY AND POISONS.
19. (1) A body corporate may carry on the business of a pharmaceutical chemist:-
(a) if the business of the body corporate, so far as it relates to the keeping, retailing and dispensing of poisons, is under the control and management of a superintendent who is a registered person, whose name has been forwarded to the Colonial Secretary to be entered by him in a register to be kept for that purpose, and who does not act at the same time in a similar capacity for any other body corporate, or for any firm or partnership; and
(b) if in every place where such business as aforesaid is carried on, and is not personally conducted by the superintendent, such business is bona fide conducted under the direction of the superintendent by a manager or assistant who is a registered person.
(2) A body corporate may use the description of chemist and druggist, or of chemist or of druggist, or of dispensing chemist or druggist, if the foregoing requirements as to the carrying on of the business are observed.
20.-(1) Every person convicted of an offence—
(a) against section 9, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars and the medicine in respect of which the offence shall have been committed shall be forfeited and dealt with as the magistrate may direct;
(b) against section 10, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars for the first offence and not exceeding one hundred dollars for the second or any subsequent offence;
(c) against sections 8, 11, 12, 14, 15 or 16, or against any regulation made under this Ordinance as to the sale, possession, importation or exportation of poison, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, or ten times the market value of the poison in respect of which the offence was committed, whichever maximum fine is the greater, and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding twelve months; and further all poison and all hypodermic syringes and other appliances capable of being used for the injection of poisons in respect of which an offence has been committed shall be forfeited and dealt with as the magistrate may direct;
* As amended by No. 8 of 1917.
† As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.