Dangerous Drugs.

11. Prescriptions, records, registers, or other documents required to be retained or kept in pursuance of these regulations shall be preserved for not less than two years from the date of the prescription or document or the last entry in the record or register, as the case may be.

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Penalty upon summary conviction, a fine of one thousand dollars.

General authorizations.

12. (1) Any person lawfully keeping open shop for the retailing of poisons in accordance with the provisions of the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, is hereby authorized, (Cap. 138.) subject always to the provisions of these regulations---

(a) to manufacture at the shop in the ordinary course of his retail business any preparation, admixture or extract of any of the drugs other than benzoyl-morphine; and

(b) to carry on at the shop the business of retailing, dispensing or compounding the drugs other than benzoyl-morphine.

(2) In the event of any such person being convicted of an offence against the Ordinance, the Director may by notice in the Gazette withdraw the authorization aforesaid, if in the opinion of the Director such person cannot properly be allowed to carry on the business of manufacturing or selling or distributing, as the case may be, any such drug.

(3) Every person authorized in pursuance of this regulation to carry on the business of manufacturing, selling or distributing the drugs shall keep the same in a locked receptacle of which the key shall be kept by himself or a qualified assistant.

Penalty upon summary conviction, a fine of one thousand dollars.

13. Every duly qualified medical practitioner, and every registered dentist, and every approved veterinary surgeon, and every person employed or engaged in dispensing medicines at any public hospital or other public institution, being a person duly registered under the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, or being approved by the Director, and every person in charge of a laboratory for purposes of research or instruction attached to the University of Hong Kong...

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