1987 Ed.]
Pharmacy and Poisons Regulations
{CAP. 138
A 13
[Subsidiary]}
20. No person shall consign any poison for transport unless it is sufficiently stoutly packed to avoid leakage arising from the ordinary risks of handling and transport.
21. (1) No person shall consign for transport by carrier any poison included in the Seventh Schedule unless the outside of the package containing the article is labelled conspicuously with the name or description of the poison as set forth in that Schedule and a notice indicating that it is to be kept separate from food and from empty containers in which food has been contained.
(2) No person shall knowingly transport any poison included in the Seventh Schedule, either on his own behalf or for another person, in any vehicle in which food is being transported, unless the food is carried in a part of the vehicle effectively separated from that containing the poison, or is otherwise adequately protected from the risk of contamination.
(3) This regulation shall not apply to medicines.
Transport of poisons.
Special provisions with respect to the transport of poisons in the Seventh Schedule.
PART V
SPECIAL PROVISIONS WITH RESPECT TO INSTITUTIONS
22. (1) Nothing in the Ordinance or in these regulations, Supply of except regulation 16, shall apply with respect to
(a) any medicine dispensed in an institution where the dispensing is under the supervision of a registered pharmacist or other person as may be approved by the Director of Medical and Health Services; or
(b) any medicine for the treatment of animals supplied from a veterinary institution which is under the superintendence of a duly qualified veterinary surgeon,
if the requirements of this regulation are satisfied in relation thereto.
(2) The medicine shall not be supplied except by, or on and in accordance with a prescription of, a duly registered medical practitioner for the purposes of medical treatment, or a registered dentist for the purposes of dental treatment, or a duly qualified veterinary surgeon for the purposes of animal treatment.
(3) In a case where a substance included in the First Schedule is supplied, a record shall be kept on the premises in such a way that there can readily be traced at any time during a period of 2 years after the date on which the substance was supplied the following particulars
(a) the name and quantity of the poison supplied; (b) the date on which the poison was supplied;
medicines to out-patients from certain institutions, etc.
First Schedule.