Inspections and en- forcement of Ordin-
ance.
(b) quantity received;
(c) date received.
(4) Entries made in records to be maintained under this section shall be supported in every case by invoice, order note or other voucher.
(5) All records to be maintained under this section and documents which support entries in such records shall be open to inspection by an inspector appointed under section 4D of this Ordinance.
(6) Any person who contravenes the provisions of this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceed- ing one thousand dollars.
4D. (1) The Director of Medical and Health Services may in writing authorize any public officer to be an inspector for the purposes of this Ordinance.
(2) Any inspector authorized under this section shall, for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this Ordinance and any regulations made thereunder have power-
(a) at all reasonable times to enter the premises of any registered pharmacist, any authorized seller of poisons and any person who is the holder of a permit under this Ordinance; (b) at any time to enter any premises in which he has reason to suspect that an offence against this Ordinance has been committed; (e) to make such examination and inquiry and to do such other things, including the taking on repayment therefor of samples, as may be necessary for the purposes of inspection; (d) to seize and detain any substance to which this Ordinance applies or any preparation of which any such substance is an ingredient or part which he has reasonable cause to suspect is liable to forfeiture under this Ordinance. (3) If any person wilfully resists or obstructs an inspector in the exercise of his powers under this sec- tion, or refuses to allow any sample to be taken in
5.
accordance with the provisions of this section, or fails without reasonable excuse to give any information which he is duly required under this section to give, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.""
ment of
Section 5 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the Amend- insertion in subsection (1) after the figure "4" of the following section 5.
"or of section 4A".
8.
The principal Ordinance is amended by the insertion at Insertion the end of section 5 of the following new section-
*For- feiture.
SA. (1) A magistrate, on application made on behalf of the Crown, shall order that any substance to which this Ordinance applies or any preparation of which any such substance is an ingredient or part, with respect to which any offence under this Ordinance has been committed, shall be forfeited to the Crown whether any person has been convicted of such offence
or not.
(2) Upon the making of an order of forfeiture under this section, the substance or preparation to which such order relates shall be deemed to be the property of the Crown free from the rights of any person."
of a new section.
16/51 and
7. The Emergency (Penicillin Ordinance, 1948) (Amend- QNA. ment) Regulations, 1951, and the Emergency (Penicillin GNA. Ordinance, 1948) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1951, are 25/51 hereby revoked.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 26th day of October, 1955-
Deputy Clerk of Councils.
(Secretariat 52/3231/47)
revoked.