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which this

Ordinance applics.

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veterinary surgeon means any member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons of Great Britain, or any other person holding the diploma of such British or Colonial veterinary institution or examining body as the Governor in Council may from time to time approve.

Substances to 3. The substances to which this Ordinance applies are penicillin and such other anti-microbial organic substances pro- duced by living organisms ns may be presèribed by regulations made by the Governur in Council under section 6 of this Ordinance and, where such regulations prescribe a substance produced by living organisms, the regulations may include any substance the chemical properties of which are identical with or similar to those of the substances so prescribed but which is not produced by living organisms.

Conmel of sale and

4. (1) Subject to the provisions of this sectiou,' по ретво shall sell or otherwise supply any substance to which this Ordinance applies or any preparation of which any such substance to which this is an ingredient or part únlése -

supply of substances

Ordinance applies.

(0) he is a registered medical practitioner, a registered dentist or a veterinary surgeon or a person acting in accordance with the directions of any such medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon, and the substance or preparation is sold or supplied for the purpose of treatment by or in accordance with the directions of that medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon; or

(b) he is a registered pharmacist or an authorised seller of poisons, and the substance or preparation is sold or supplied under the authority of a prescription signed and datad by such medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon as aforesaid.

(2) No person shall administer by way of treatment any such substance or preparation unless he is such a medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon.

(3) Sub-section (1) of this section shall not apply to the sale or supply of any such substance or preparation-

(n) by way of wholesale dealing:

(b) for the purpose of being exported;

(c) to any such medical practitioner, dentist or

veterinary surgeon as aforesaid;

(d) to any authority or person carrying on a hospital, clinic, nursing home or other institution providing medical, surgical or veterinary treatment;

(e) to any person carrying ou an institution or business which has among its recognised activities the conduct of scientific education or research, for use by persona engaged in that education or research; or

to any public department,

(4) The person dispensing a prescription shall comply with the following requirements:-

(a) if the prescription contains a direction that it may be dispersed a stated number of times or, at stated intervale, it must not be dispensed otherwise than in accordance with the direction;

(b) at the time of dispensing there must be noted on the prescription the signature of the prescriber, the name and address of the seller and the date on which the prescription was dispensed;

(c) except in the case of a prescription which may be dispensed on more than one occasion, the prescription must for a period of two years he retained and kept on the premises on which it was dispensed, in such manner as to be readily available for reference.

5.

(1) Any person who contravenes any provision of section offences athl 4 of this Ordinance shall be guilty of an offence under this penalties. Ordinance nud shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or in the case of a second or subsequent conviction, to such a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or to both such fine and such imprisonment.

(2) Where an offence under this Orilinance luas been committed by a body corporate, every person who at the time of the commission of the offence was a director, general manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, or was purporting to set in any such capacity, shall be deemed to be guilty of that offence unless he provos that the offence was com- mitted without his consent or connivance and that he exercised all such diligence to prevent the commission of the offence as be pught to have exercised having regard to the nature of his functions in that capacity and to all the circumstances.

(1) The Governor in Council may make regulations for Regulations. prescribing the substances and definitions thereof to which this Ordinance applies and generally for carrying the provisions of this Ordinance into effect.

(2) The regulations in the Schedule to this Ordinance Schedule. shall be deemed to have been made under this Ordinance and shall continue in force except in so far as they may be rescinded or amended or added to by regulations made under this section.