Premises required to be under the control of a registered
pharmacist.
Registration of premises.
Annual return.
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(3) No registered pharmacist employed by an authorized seller of poisons shall at the same time engage in the retail sale of poisons on his own account and in employment with any other authorized seller of poisons without first obtaining the written authority of the Board.
(4) The Board may grant a registered pharmacist written authority under subsection (3) on such conditions as it thinks fit.
12. Each set of premises of an authorized seller of poisons where poisons are kept for the purposes of retail sale shall be under the personal control of a registered pharmacist,
13. (1) An authorized seller of poisons shall register each set of premises where the retail sale of poisons is conducted.
(2) The Board shall cause a register to be kept (in this Ordinance referred to as the register of premises) in which shall be entered the address of each sea of premises where poisons are sold and the name of the authorized seller of poisons who is the proprietor of the business carried on at such premises.
(3) An authorized seller of poisons, who applies to register any set of premises under this section, shall pay such fee in respect of the application as may be prescribed, and for each year subsequent to the first year of registration he shall pay such fee as may be prescribed for the retention of such premises on the register of premises.
(4) The registration of any premises registered under this section shall lapse at the expiration of twenty-eight days after- (a) a change of the ownership of the business conducted therein, unless application is made for the retention of such premises on the register and the fee prescribed in that behalf paid; or
(b) the end of the registration year, if the fees prescribed for the retention of the registration of such premises have not been paid.
14. (1) An authorized seller of poisons shall in the month of January in cach year send to the Secretary a list showing the addresses of all sets of promises where he conducts the retail sale of poisons and showing the name of the registered pharmacist having personal control of each such set of premises.
(2) Where any change occurs in the address of the business of an authorized seller of poisons or where any registered phar- macist whose name is displayed in any promises registered under
this Ordinance ceases to be employed or engaged in such premises. the authorized seller of poisons shall, within twenty-eight days. give the Secretary notice in writing setting out particulars of such change.
(3) An authorized seller of poisons who fails to comply with the provisions of this section shall be guilty of an offence.
15. (1) When a complaint is received by the Board regard- ing the conduct of a registered pharmacist, an employee of a registered pharmacist, a body which is an authorized seller of poisons or an officer or employee of or partner in such body, or when any such person or body is convicted of an offence under this Ordinance or when it otherwise appears necessary or desirable to the Board that the conduct of any such person or body should be inquired into, the Board shall, for the purpose of such inquiry. appoint a Disciplinary Committee consisting of-
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(a) the medical officer in the Medical and Health Depart- ment appointed by the Governor under paragraph (e) of subsection (2) of section 3 who shall be the chairman of the Disciplinary Committee; and
(b) two registered pharmacists (not being public officers) nominated by the Pharmaceutical Society of Hong Kong. (2) The Governor shall appoint a legally qualified person to act as the legal adviser to a Disciplinary Committee.
Appointment of
Disciplinary Committes.
Powers of a
Committes.
16. (1) A Disciplinary Committee appointed under section 15 shall hold an inquiry into the conduct of any person or body Disciplinary in respect of whom or which it is appointed and shall cause notice thereof to be served on the person or body concerned at least twenty-eight days before the date of such inquiry.
(2) A Disciplinary Committee may, if it thinks fit, at the conclusion of an inquiry under this section--
(a) where the inquiry is in respect of a registered pharmacist or an employee of a registered pharmacist, direct the Secretary either—
(i) to ceasure the registered pharmacist; or
(ii) subject to subsection (5), to remove his name from the register of pharmacists and not to re-enter it thereon for such period as the Disciplinary Committee directs; (b) where the inquiry is in respect of a body which is an authorized seller of poisons or in respect of an officer or employee of or partner in such body, direct that-
() that body be disqualified, for such period as may be specified in the direction, from being an authorized seller of poisons; or
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