1987 Ed.]
Pharmacy and Poisons Regulations
[CAP. 138
A 27
[Subsidiary]
(ii) the particulars specified under regulation 31(1) are printed so as to be clearly legible in English or Chinese on the article or a label affixed thereto.
(2) Nothing in this regulation shall apply to any article— (a) made up and supplied for the use of a particular person, being an article prescribed by reference to the needs of that person; or
(b) consisting wholly of either-
(i) a product resulting solely from the pharmaceutical treatment of natural products as referred to by the Chinese Herbal Materia Medica;
(ii) a mixture the sole ingredients of which are two or more of such products; or
(iii) a natural mineral water or an artificial imitation thereof.
(3) For the purposes of this regulation-
"advertisement" includes any notice, circular, pamphlet, label, wrapper or other document, and any announcement made orally or by any means of producing or transmitting light or sound;
"proprietary designation", in relation to the sale of an article consisting of or comprising a substance recommended as a medicine, means words used or proposed to be used in connexion with the sale of articles consisting of or comprising the substance, for the purpose of indicating that they are the goods of a particular person by virtue of manufacture, selection, certification, dealing with or offering for sale; and "proprietor" in relation to such a designation means the person whose goods are indicated or intended to be indicated by the designation;
"substance" includes a preparation;
"substance recommended as a medicine", in relation to the sale of an article consisting or comprising a substance so recommended, means a substance which is referred to-
(a) on the article, or on any wrapper or container in which the article is sold, or on any label affixed to, or in any document enclosed in, the article or such wrapper or container; or
(b) in any placard or other document exhibited at the place where the article is sold; or
(c) in any advertisement published after the coming into operation of these regulations by or on behalf of the manufacturer of the article, or the person carrying on the business in the course of which the article was sold, or, in a case where the article was under a proprietary designation, the proprietor of the designation,