CO129-563-2 Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance- 1937 31-5-1937 - 6-1-1938 — Page 46

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Relaxation

of section

20 (3) in the case

of certain medicines.

Exemption

from the provisions relating

solely to the First List.

Complete exemption for articles and sub- stances in

the Second List.

Additional restriction

of sale of poisons in the Third

List.

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(4) a registered medical practitioner, registered dental surgeon or duly qualified veterinary surgeon;

(5) such persons who require the poison for the purpose of their trade or business and in such quantities (if any), as may be named in his licence;

(6) a Government department or officer of the Crown requiring the article for the purposes of the public service;

(7) a person or institution concerned with scientific research, if the article is required for the purposes of that education or research;

(8) a hospital, infirmary, dispensary or similar institution approved by an order, whether general or special, of the Governor in Council under section 21 (4) of the Ordinance;

(9) purchasers outside the Colony.

5. The requirements mentioned in section 20 (3) of the Ordinance (which requires particulars of medicines supplied or dispensed under that section to be entered in a book) need not be satisfied in the case of any medicine, not being a substance included in the First List under these Poisons Regulations, which is supplied by-..-

(a) a registered medical practitioner for the purposes of medical treatment; or

(b) an authorised seller of poisons on and in accordance with a prescription given by a registered medical practitioner.

6. Such of the provisions of these Poisons Regulations, and of Part II of the Ordinance as modified by these Regulations, as apply solely with respect to the substances included in the First List under these Regulations, shall not apply with respect to-

(a) machine-spread plasters; or

(b) surgical dressings; or

(c) articles containing barium carbonate and prepared for the destruction of rats and mice; or

(d) corn paints in which the only poison is a poison included in the Poisons List under the heading of "Cannabis".

7. Nothing in Part II of the Ordinance or these Poisons Regula- tions shall apply—

(a) with respect to any article in Group I of the Second List under these Regulations; or

(b) so far as any poison specified in the first column of Group II of that List is concerned, with respect to any of the articles or substances specified in the second column opposite the description of the poison.

8. (1) It shall not be lawful to sell any poison included in the Third List under these Poisons Regulations, except on and in accordance with a prescription given by a registered medical practi- tioner, registered dentist or duly qualified veterinary surgeon in the form provided by this Regulation.

(2) This Regulation shall apply to the sale of any such poison, notwithstanding that it is a transaction exempted by section 20 of the Ordinance, but shall not apply to any sale exempted by section 21 of the Ordinance.

(3) For the purposes of this Regulation a prescription shall-- (a) be in writing and be signed by the person giving it with his usual signature and be dated by him;

(b) indicate the total amount of the medicine to be supplied and the dose to be taken.

(4) The person dispensing the prescription shall comply with the following requirements:—

(a) the prescription must not be dispensed more than once unless the prescriber has stated thereon that it may be dispensed more than once;

(b) if the prescription contains a direction that it may be dispensed a stated number of times or at stated intervals, it must not be dispensed otherwise than in accordance with the direction;