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The references in sections 6(f) and 13(1) to auctioneers

licences were suggested by two cases which have arisen in the

winding up of the German firms, where it will be necessary

to sell by auction two stocks of medicines which include

some poisons within the meaning of the ordinance.

The regu-

ade under the Ordinance will give the

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Governor power to grant licences to auctioneers for the sale

of specified poisons on such conditions as he may see fit in

each particular case, and in the two cases mentioned above

it is intended that conditions will be imposed which will be

in accordance with the principles laid down in the grainance. The provisions of section 13(3) (b), of the last clause

of section 14, and of section 15 (d) are intended to meet the

case of persons who are entitled under the Medical Registra- tion ordinances, 1884 and 1914, to practise medicine and sur-

gery according to Western methods, but who are not registered medical practitioners. The two classes of persons referred

to are dealt with in sub-sections (2) and (3) of section 3 of

Ordinance o. 1 of 1884 as enacted by section 3 of Ordinance

31 of 1914. These persons havehitherto been treated, with respect to the possession and prescription of poisons, as on the same footing as registered medical practitioners: see the regulations published as Notification No. 136 in the

Hongkong Government Gazette of 17th April, 1914. It will

be noticed that those regulations refer only to licentiates

of the Hongkong College of Medicine, but on the schedule to those regulations being revised for the purpose of this ordi- nance it was found that two persons in that schedule were not licentiates of the Hongkong College of Medicine but were per- sons who would come under section 3(3) of the Medical Registra- tion Ordinances. It was therefore necessary to omit in the ordinance any reference to the Hongkong College of Medicine