Pharmacy and Poisons.

(b) at any time to enter any premises in which he has reasonable cause to suspect that a breach of the law has been committed in relation to any poison included in the Poisons List;

(c) to make such examination and inquiry and to do such other things, including the taking, on payment therefor, of samples, as may be necessary for the purposes of the inspection;

(d) to seize and detain any substance or article consisting of or containing any poison which he has reasonable cause to suspect is liable to forfeiture under this Ordinance.

(3) If a person wilfully delays or obstructs an inspector in the exercise of any powers under this section, or refuses to allow any sample to be taken in accordance with the provisions of this section, or fails without reasonable excuse to give any information which he is duly required under this section to give, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of fifty dollars.

(4) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions, it shall be the duty of every person who appears to be conducting in any premises any business which comprises the retail sale of drugs to state, on being required so to do by an inspector authorized under this section, who the owner of the business is, and if any person fails without reasonable excuse to comply with the provisions of this subsection he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of fifty dollars.

(5) Nothing in this section shall authorize any inspector authorized thereunder to enter or inspect the premises, not being a shop, of a registered medical practitioner, a registered dental surgeon or a duly qualified veterinary surgeon.

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26. Any magistrate may order to be forfeited any substance or article consisting of or containing any poison with respect to which any offence under this Ordinance has been committed, whether any person has been convicted of such offence or not, and upon the making of any such order of forfeiture such substance or article shall be deemed to be the property of the Crown free from all rights of any person.

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