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Such an arrangement is important for the proper control of pharmaceutical products because any change made to the particulars thereof may affect the nature of the products.
The Amendment Regulation also seeks to add the identity card number of a purchaser of pharmaceutical products including cough medicines as one of the required entries in the poisons book recording sales.
The purpose of this Amendment is to facilitate the keeping of a fuller record when certain products such as cough medicines are sold. We believe that this arrangement will also have discouraged drug abuse by requiring potential drug abusers to disclose their identity card numbers.
If the Amendment is approved, we will ensure through appropriate publicity arrangements that the public, the profession and pharmaceutical associations concerned are aware of this new requirement and its scope as well as the reasons for its introduction. We will also continue to liaise with pharmaceutical associations over relevant details of this new requirement.
Mr President, I beg to move.
End/Wednesday, July 26, 1995
Security and Guarding Services Ordinance
Following is the speech by the Secretary for Security, Mr Peter Lai, in moving the Security and. Guarding Services Ordinance in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday):
Mr President,
I move the motion standing in my name on the Order Paper.
Under Section 6(3) of the Security and Guarding Services Ordinance, the criteria that a person must satisfy before the Commissioner of Police may issue a permit to him for engaging in security work, require the approval of this Council.
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