CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923 — Page 710

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A.D. 1923.

Amendment

of s. 17 of

Pharmacy Act, 1868. with respect to sales of poisons on

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Dangerous Drugs and Poisons [13 & 14 GEO. 5.]

(Amendment).

(d) The seller must enter in the book, in the column assigned to the signatures of purchasers, the words "signed order" followed by the date on which the order is executed, and must preserve the order for a period of two years from the 5 date on which the final entry in the book is made.

Provided that if a seller is reasonably satisfied that a registered medical practitioner desiring to purchase a poison urgently requires it for the purpose of his pro- 10 fession, but is, by reason of some emergency, unable, before delivery, either to furnish to the seller an order in writing duly signed, or to attend and sign the book, the seller may send the poison to the purchaser to be handed over to him either in exchange for such an order or on an 15 undertaking by the purchaser to furnish such an order to the seller within the twenty-four hours next following.

If any purchaser by whom any such undertaking as aforesaid has been given fails to deliver to the seller a signed order in accordance with the undertaking, or if 20 any person for the purpose of obtaining delivery of any poison under the foregoing proviso makes a statement which is to his knowledge false, he shall be deemed to have procured the commission of a offence under the said section seventeen.

(3) This section applies to registered dentists and registered veterinary surgeons as it applies to registered medical practitioners.

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4. (1) Where any poison to which section seventeen of the Pharmacy Act, 1868, applies is supplied on and in 30 accordance with a written prescription given by a regis- tered medical practitioner under and in accordance with the provisions of the Acts relating to national health insurance, the seller of the poison shall not be required to medical pre make any entry in the book in accordance with the 35

requirements of the said section.

scriptions,

&c.

(2) The said section seventeen shall have effect as if

for the words " labelled with the name of the article and

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the word poison, and with the name and address of the "seller of the poison," there were substituted the words 40

labelled with the name and address of the seller of the "poison, with the word 'poison,' and with the name of

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the poison, and, in the case of a preparation which

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[13 & 14 GRO. 5.] Dangerous Drugs and Poisons

(Amendment).

" contains a poison as one of the ingredients thereof, with A.D. 1923. "such particulars as to the proportion which the poison

contained in the preparation bears to the other ingre-

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dients as may be prescribed by Order in Council."

5. For the purposes of the Schedule to the Poisons Calculation and Pharmacy Act, 1908, and of section eight of the of percent- Dangerous Drugs Act, 1920, percentages in the case of ages in case

of liquid liquid preparations shall, unless other provision in that preparations. behalf is made by regulations under those Acts respectively & Edw. 7. 10 be calculated on the basis that a preparation containing c. 55.

one per cent of any substance means a preparation in which one gramme of the substance, if a solid, or one millilitre of the substance, if a liquid, is contained in every one hundred millilitres of the preparation, and so 15 in proportion for any greater or less percentage.

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6. (1) This Act may be cited as the Dangerous Short title, Drugs and Poisons (Amendment) Act, 1923, and the interpreta Dangerous Drugs Act, 1920, and this Act, in so far as extent. it amends that Act, may be cited together as 20 Dangerous Drags Acts, 1920 and 1923.

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(2) The expression "corresponding law" in the Dangerous Drugs Act, 1920, as amended by this Act, means any law stated in a certificate purporting to be issued by or on behalf of the government of any country 25 outside Great Britain to be a law providing for the control and regulation in that country of the manufacture, sale, use, export and import of drugs in accordance with the provisions of the International Opium Convention signed at the Hague on the twenty-third day of January, nineteen 30 hundred and twelve, and any statement in any such certificate as to the effect of the law mentioned in the certificate, or any statement in any such certificate that any facts constitute an offence against that law, shall be conclusive.

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(3) This Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland, except in so far as it amends the Dangerous Drugs Act, 1920, in relation to matters with respect to which the Parliament of Northern Ireland have not power to make laws,