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Store to be kept locked.

Children

and m-

authorized persona not permitted

ia store.

Restriction

on storage together of certain substance in stores.

General provisions relating to packing CONVEYANCS

and storage of poisonous substancra.

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(b) in the case of any part of the store intended for the storage of any poisonous substance of category 4, class 1, the means of ventilation is adequate.

89. Any person being in charge of any store shall cause every entrance thereto to be at all times securely closed and locked except when access is required to the store for the purposes of inspection, maintenance or the handling of goods.

90. No person under the age of fourteen years, and, except with the permission of the licensee of the store, no person over that age. shall be in any store containing any poisonous substance.

91. No person shall store, or cause or permit to be stored. any dangerous goods of category 4 in any store together with any goods other than dangerous goods of that category.

92. (1) No person shall store or convey, or cause or permit to be stored or conveyed, any substance specified in the first column of the table to this regulation unless such substance is contained in main or inner packing, as the case may be, of a type specified for that substance in the second column of the table.

(2) No person shall fill any container, or cause or permit any container to be filled, with any substance specified in the first column of the table to this regulation to such an extent as to leave within the container less than the minimum air space or ullage specified in the third column of the table opposite the type of packing specified for that substance in the second column of the table.

(3) No person shall fill any container, or cause or permit any container to be filled, with any quantity of any substance specified in the first column of the table to this regulation greater than the maximum quantity or net weight thereof specified in the fourth column of the table opposite the type of packing specified for that substance in the second column of the table.

(4) No person shall store or convey, or cause or permit to be stored or conveyed, any container containing any substance specified in the first column of the table to this regulation unless such container is enclosed in protective or outer packing of the type specified in the fifth column of the table opposite the type of packing for that substance specified in the second column of the table.

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(5) No person shall store or convey, or cause or permit to be stored or conveyed, any substance specified in the first column of the uable to this regulation unless every main or inner packing and every protective or outer packing containing such substance bears the label or labels prescribed in the First Schedule indicated by the letter or First letters appearing in the sixth column of the table opposite that Schedule.

substance:

Provided that, where any inner packing of any such substance is already conspicuously marked in English and Chinese in such manner as to indicate the poisonous nature of the contents, nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to require the substitution therefor, or the addition thereto, of any label prescribed in the First Schedule.

(6) Subsection (1) of section 5 of the Ordinance shall not apply to the conveyance or storage of any substance specified in the first column of the table to this regulation-

(a) in any quantity not exceeding that, if any, specified for that

substance in the seventh column of the table; or

(b) in any quantity not exceeding that, if any, specified for that substance in the eighth column of the table if it is conveyed or stored solely—

First Schedule.

(1) for use in and for the purposes of a nursing or maternity home registered or exempted from registration in respect thereof in accordance with the provisions of the Nursing and (Cap. 169), Maternity Homes Registration Ordinance:

(1) for use in and for the purposes of a mental hospital within the meaning of the Mental Health Ordinance, 1960;

(iii) by or on behalf of, and for the purposes of the practice of, a registered medical practitioner within the meaning of the Medical Registration Ordinance, 1957;

(35 of 1960).

(25 of 1957).

(iv) by or on behalf of, and for the purposes of the practice of a registered dentist within the meaning of the Dentists (29 of 1959). Registration Ordinance, 1959;

(v) by or on behalf of, and for the purposes of the business of, an authorized seller of poisons within the meaning of the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance; or

(vi) for use in and for the purposes of any laboratory.

(Cap. 138).