DRAFT SPEECH BY DR HON HENRIETTA IP, OBE, JP
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL - 25.3.87
Pharmacy and Poisons (Amendment) Regulations 1987
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I rise to support the motion in respect of the Pharmacy and Poisons (Amendment) Regulations 1987. I recall that during the Resumption of Debate on the Second Reading of
the Pharmacy and Poisons (Amendment) Bill on 30.7.86, I mentioned that I saw that Bill "as one of the many to come aimed at improving consumer protection through legislation.' Today, I warmly welcome these proposed Amendment Regulations which provide for further control on the dispensing of pharmaceutical products. The Secretary for Health and Welfare,
in moving the motion, has already explained and highlighted the features of the more important regulations and I shall not
repeat these details here. I would only add a few remarks.
The LegCo Ad Hoc Group formed to study these amending regulations is delighted to find that they have improved the existing legislation. The proposed Regulation 6 will
effectively remove the loophole in the original Regulation 36. The effect of this new amendment is that not only is the sale and distribution of unregistered or deregistered pharmaceutical products prohibited, but possession of them is also an offence. I therefore hope that unscrupulous traders will now be prevented from taking advantage of the loophole by storing such products outside their normal business premises.
Another important amendment to the principal
regulations is the proposed Amendment Regulation 7 which has received particular attention from the Ad Hoc Group. This regulation introduces the new Regulation 38A in the principal regulations to provide for the labelling of medicine with
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