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Hong Kong Pharmacy & Poisons Ordinance, 1937.

Section 19(2) of the Ordinance, which corresponds to

Section 18(2) of the Pharmacy and Poisons Act, 1933,

restricts the sale of poisons in Part I of the Poisons

List to a person known to the seller or certified in the

prescribed manner to be a person to whom the poison may

properly be sold, and provides further that particulars of

the sale of Part I poisons must be entered in a book and

that the entry must be signed by the purchaser.

There

does not appear, however, to be any provision in the

Ordinance or Regulations corresponding to Rules 6 and 7

of the Poisons Rules, 1935 (made under the Pharmacy and

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Poisons Act, 1933) which modify and extend the application

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of these provisions in certain directions.

In particular,

the provisions of Section 19(2) have not, it is observed,

been extended so as to apply to the sale of any poisons

in Part II of the Poisons List, the more dangerous of which,

such as those in the arsenical group, it was thought

essential in this country to subject to the restrictions

contained in Section 18(2) of the Act of 1933 (vide Rule 6

and First Schedule of the Poisons Rules, 1935).