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Ord. No. 50/77

PHARMACY AND POISONS (AMENDMENT)

HONG KONG

L.S.

No. 50 OF 1977

I assent.

Short title and

MURRAY MACLEHOSE,

Governor.

29th June, 1977.

An Ordinance to amend the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance.

[30th June, 1977]

Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.

1. (1) This Ordinance may be cited as the Pharmacy and Poisons commencement. (Amendment) Ordinance 1977.

(Cap. 117.)

(Cap. 138.)

Amendment of section 2.

(Cap. 138.)

Amendment of section 7.

(2) Sections 2(b), 3 and 5 shall come into operation on the 1st January 1978.

(3) Where a registered pharmacist makes an application before the 1st January 1978 for a certificate to practise under section 25 of the Stamp Ordinance in respect of the year 1978, the application shall be treated as an application for a practising certificate under section 10A of the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance and the Secretary may issue a practising certificate before that date as if that section were already in operation.

2. Section 2 of the principal Ordinance is amended-

(a) by deleting the definition of "pharmaceutical product" and

"medicine" and substituting the following new definition-

""pharmaceutical product" and "medicine" mean any sub- stance or mixture of substances manufactured, sold, supplied or offered for sale or supply for use in- (a) the diagnosis, treatment, mitigation, alleviation or prevention of disease or any symptom thereof; (b) the diagnosis, treatment, mitigation, alleviation of any abnormal physical or physiological state or any symptom thereof;

(c) altering, modifying, correcting or restoring any

organic function,

in human beings or in animals;"; and

(b) by inserting after the definition of "Poisons List" the following

new definition-

"practising certificate" means a certificate issued under

section 10A;".

3. Section 7(3) of the principal Ordinance is amended-

(a) by deleting the full stop after paragraph (d) and substituting a

semicolon; and

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