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Candidates must not take into the Examination Rooms or Laboratories any books or any notes or memoranda, whether written or in print.
[Sec. 6 (6).]
Examination Fees.
1. An applicant for registration must forward to the Colonial Secretary with his application the sum of twenty-five dollars, which is payable whether or not the applicant is examined in all or any subjects, or submits certificates in lieu of exam- ination. This fee shall cover the cost of registration in case the applicant is approved for such.
2. In case an applicant is not approved for registration or fails in an examination, a fee of fiteeen dollars shall be payable in any subsequent application or examination.
3. An applicant who for any good and sufficient reason has been unable to attend an examination arranged for him, may sit again on payment of a reduced fee of ten dollars.
[Sec. 6 (c).]
Certificates.
1. The certificate granted to an applicant who has passed in any examination requir-
e under this Ordinance shall read as follows:-
GOVERNMENT OF HONGKONG.
This is to certify that....
has passed an examination in..
2. In the keeping of poisons, each poison shall be kept on one or other of the following systems:-
(a.) in a bottle or vessel tied over, capped, locked, or otherwise secured in a manner different from that in which bottles or vessels containing ordi- nary articles are secured in the same warehouse, shop, or dispensary; or (b.) in a bottle or vessel rendered distinguishable by touch from the bottles or vessels in which ordinary articles are kept in the same warehouse, shop, or dispensary; or
(c.) in a bottle, vessel, box, or package kept in a room or cupboard set apart
for dangerous articles.
3. In the dispensing and selling of poisons, all liniments, embrocations, lotions and liquid disinfectants containing poison shall be sent out in bottles rendered distinguish- able by touch from ordinary medicine bottles, and there shall also be affixed to each such bottle (in addition to the name of the article, and to any particular instructions for its use) a label giving notice that the contents of the bottle are not to be taken internally.
4. In the selling of arsenic and its preparations
(a.) the poison, if colourless, must be mixed with soot or indigo so as to colour
it;
(b.) the person to whom the poison is sold or delivered must be apparently not
less than sixteen years of age;
(c.) the occupation as well as the name and address of the purchaser, must be
entered in the "Poison Book";
(d) when the purchaser is not known to the seller and is introduced by some person known to both, this person shall be present as a witness to the transaction, and shall enter his name and address in the "Poison Book".
5. Nothing in these regulations shall be deemed to modify or restrict the provisions of sections 11 and 12 of the Ordinance.
Date..
As witness...
Examiners.
2. The certificate shall be sent by the examiners to the Colonial Secretary who shall forward it to the Successful applicant.
3. If the certificate shows that the applicant has passed in all the subjects required for registration, the following words shall be added to it :—-
[Sec. 6 (d).]
Approved for registration as a Chemist and Druggist.
Registration Fee.
[Sec. 6 (ƒ)]
Licences to Wholesale Dealers and Auctioneers.
The Governor may grant to wholesale dealers and auctioneers licences for the sale of any specified poisons on such conditions as he may see fit in each particular case.
[Sec. G (g).]
Fees in respect of Licences granted to Wholesale
Dealers and Auctioneers.
The fee payable in respect of licences granted to wholesale dealers shall be ten dollars a year for each poison or preparation of poison sold, and the fee payable in res- pect of licences granted to auctioneers shall be ten dollars for each auction.
[Sec. 6 (h).]
Colonial Secretary.
The fee for registration shall be ten dollars payable to the Colonial Secretary.
[Sec. 6 (e).]
Keeping, Dispensing and Selling Poisons
by registered persons.
1. In the keeping of poisons each bottle, vessel, box, or package containing a poison shall be labelled with the name of the article, and also with some distinctive mark in- dicating that it contains poison.
The Sale, Possession, Importation, and Exportation of Poisons.
1. No person may have in his possession, custody or power a greater quantity than 12 official doses of any of the poisons included in Part III of Schedule A to the Ordi- nance: Provided that registered persons, and such persons as for the time being fall within the exemptions of Sub-section (3) of Section 13 of the Ordinance, may have in their possession such quantity of the said poisons as may be reasonably necessary for the purposes of their business or practice. Such quantity in the case of any one such person shall not at any one time exceed five pounds in weight of any one such poison or prepara- tion thereof except with the permission in writing of the Principal Civil Medical Officer.
2. Except to such persons as for the time being fall within the exemptions of Sub- section (3) of Section 13 of the Ordinance, no registered person shall supply to any person any poison included in Part III of Schedule A to the Ordinance, unless it has been prescribed by some such exempted person.