CO129-563-2 Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance- 1937 31-5-1937 - 6-1-1938 — Page 48

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Special cautions in

the case of

certain articles.

Storage of poisons.

Manufacture of pharma-

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14. (1) It shall not be lawful to sell or supply any poison-

(a) in the case of a liquid other than a medicine, contained in a bottle of a capacity of not more than 120 fluid ounces, unless the bottle is labelled with the words "Not to be taken";

(b) in the case of an embrocation, liniment, lotion, liquid antiseptic, or other liquid medicine for external application, unless the container is labelled with the naine of the article and the words "For external use only".

(2) It shall not be lawful to sell or supply any compressed hydrocyanic acid, unless the container is labelled with the words "Warning. This container holds poisonous gas and should only be opened and used by persons having expert knowledge of the precautions to be taken in its use".

15.-(1) It shall not be lawful to store any poison except in a container impervious to the poison and sufficiently stout to prevent leakage from the container arising from the ordinary risks of handling.

(2) It shall not be lawful to store any substance included in the First List under these Poisons Regulations in any retail shop or premises used in connection therewith unless the substance is stored- (a) in a cupboard or drawer reserved solely for the storage of poisons; or

(b) in a part of the premises which is partitioned off or otherwise separated from the remainder of the premises and to which customers are not permitted to have access; or

(0) on a shelf reserved solely for the storage of poisons and- (i) no food is kept directly under the shelf, and

(ii) the container of the substance is rendered distinguishable by touch from the containers of articles and substances other than poisons stored upon the same premises.

16. In all establishments in which pharmaceutical preparations containing any poison are manufactured for the purpose of the ceutical internal treatment of human ailments, the preparation must be preparations. manufactured by, or under the supervision of-

Certificate

of persons

to whom

poisons may

be sold,

(1) a registered pharmacist; or

(2) a person having one of the following qualifications in

chemistry :-

(a) the Fellowship of the Institute of Chemistry;

(b) the Associateship of the Institute of Chemistry:

Provided that this Regulation shall not apply to the manufacture by or under the supervision of a registered medical practitioner of preparations containing pituitary, suprarenal or thyroid glands, the active principles of any of those glands or the salts of the active principles of thyroid gland.

17. (1) A certificate given for the purposes of paragraph (a) st section 19 (2) of the Ordinance, being a certificate certifying a person to be a person to whom a poison may properly be sold, shall be in the form, and shall contain the particulars, as provided by this Regulation.

(2) Persons known both to the intending purchaser and to the seller are hereby authorised to give such certificate as aforesaid.

(8) On any sale of a poison upon such a certificate as aforesaid,

the certificate shall be retained by the seller.

(4) The Form of the certificate as aforesaid shall be-

For the purposes of sub-section (2) (a) (i) of section 19 of the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, 1986, I, the undersigned, occupying (a)

hereby certify that

I am acquainted with (b)

and with (c)

(b)

(d)

and that

is a person to whom

..may properly be supplied by (c)

I further certify that (e)

is the signature of the said (b)

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(a) Insert full postal address.

Date

Signature of person giving

certificate.

(b) Insert full name of intending purchaser.

(c) Insert full name of intending seller.

(d) Insert name of poison.

(e) Intending purchaser to sign here.

18. The particulars of sales of poisons which are required by Form of paragraph (b) of section 19 (2) of the Ordinance to be entered in a record of book shall be in the following form:-

sales.

Date of sale

Name and quantity of poison supplied

Purchaser's Name

Address

Business, trade or occupation

Purpose for which stated to be required

Date of certificate (if any)

Name and address of person giving certificate if any

Signature of purchaser or where a signed order is permitted by the

Poisons Regulations, the date of the signed order

19. All books kept for the purposes of Part II of the Ordinance Preservation shall be preserved on the premises on which the sales recorded of records. therein were made for a period of two years from the date on which the last entry was made therein.

20. Nothing in these Poisons Regulations shall apply, except as General is expressly provided therein, to transactions exempted by section 20 exemption of of the Ordinance.

LISTS.

First List.

Substances falling within the Poisons List to which special restrictions apply.

Alkaloids, the following; their salts, simple or complex:-

Acetyldihydrocodeinone

Aconite, alkaloids of, except substances containing less than 0.02

per cent. of the alkaloids of aconite

Apomorphine except substances containing less than 0.2 per cent.

of apomorphine

Atropine except substances containing less than 0.15 per cent.

of atropine

section 20

transac-

tions.

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