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name and address of all sellers of poisons.
(b) for notification by persons, whether in business or practice, before the Ordinance comes into operation or not, of their intention to sell poisons.
(c) for the notification to be made according to a form set forth in a Schedule to the Ordinance.
(d) for the prohibition of the sale of poisons by any person who shall not have so notified the Authority.
(e) that the Authority shall provide and supply, free of charge, to any person who shall apply for them, forms for the said notification.
(f) that the seller shall notify to the Authority any change of address.
(g) that none of the above provisions shall apply to any medical practitioner registered under Ordinance 6 of 1884 or any native physician.
The granting of a certificate of registration by the Authority is not contemplated under the above clauses for the reason that there would be danger of such a certificate being regarded by ignorant persons as though it were equivalent to a licence to practise. Such licence could, of course, only be granted after a candidate had passed an examination as a test of his competency.
At the present time, there are no restrictions on the practice of medicine by the Chinese and, in consequence,