Pharmacy and Poisons.
(a) the article is sold or supplied to a person carrying on a business in the course of which poisons are regularly sold or are regularly used in the manufacture of other articles; and
(b) the seller or supplier is reasonably satisfied that the purchaser requires the article for the purpose of that business.
(2) Paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section 19 shall, in its application to sales exempted by section 21 of the Ordinance and to the supply in the form of commercial samples of substances included in the First List to these regulations, be deemed to be satisfied if the person to whom the poison or sample is sold or supplied is known by the person in charge of the department of the business through which the sale or supply is effected to be a person to whom the poison or sample may properly be sold or supplied.
(3) So much of paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section 19 as requires an entry in a book to be signed by the purchaser of a poison shall not, as respects the sale of a poison to a person for the purposes of his trade, business or profession, apply if the following requirements are satisfied--- (a) the seller must obtain before the completion of the sale an order in writing signed by the purchaser stating his name and address, trade, business or profession, the name and quantity of the article to be purchased, and the purpose for which it is required; (b) the seller must be reasonably satisfied that the signature is that of the person purporting to have signed the order, and that that person carries on the trade, business or profession stated in the order, being one in which the poison to be purchased is used;
(c) if the article sold is sent by post, it must be sent by registered post;
(d) the seller must insert in the entry prescribed by regulation 36 the words "signed order" and a reference number by which the order can be identified:
Provided that where a person represents that he urgently requires a poison for the purpose of his trade, business or profession, the seller may, if he is reasonably satisfied that
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