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PHARMACY AND POISONS ORDINANCE.

(Chapter 138).

POISONS (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1963,

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 4 of the Pharmacy

and Poisons Ordinance, the Pharmacy Board with the approval of the Governor in Council has made the following regulations~-~-

1. These regulations may be cited as the Poisons (Amendment) Citation.

Regulations, 1963.

2. The First List to the Poisons Regulations (hereinafter referred Amendmot to as the principal regulations) is amended-

(a) by the deletion of the words “organic compounds of mercury except substances containing less than the equivalent of 0.2 per cent, weight in weight, of mercury (Hg)" in the item commencing "Mercuric chloride" and the substitution therefor of the following-

"organic compounds of mercury except substances con- taining less than the equivalent of 0.3 per cent, weight in weight, of mercury (Hg)":

(8) by the deletion of the words—

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“Antihistamine substances; the following: their salts:-

Antazoline Bromazine Chlorcyclizine

Diphenhydramine

-Di-n-butylaminomethyl-4:5:6-trihydroxypthalide 1-methyl-4-amino-N'-phenyl-N'-(2”-thenyl)-piperidine

Phenindamine

Promethazine

Substances being tetra-substituted N ̧ derivatives of

ethylenediamine or propylenediaminë”; and

(c) by the addition at the end thereof of the following-

"Levomethorphan; its salts

Racemethorphan; its salts

Diphenoxylate; its salts

Propoxyphene; its salts

Suprarenal gland, the active principles of, except adrena- line; their salts, their derivatives, and salts of their derivatives".

of First Lis. (Vol. X, è. 697.