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Speech by the Secretary for Health and Welfare in the Legislative Council on Wednesday 25 March 1987

Sir,

I move the Motion standing in my name on the Order

Paper in respect of the Pharmacy and Poisons (Amendment)

Regulations 1987.

2.

Section 29 of the Pharmacy & Poisons Ordinance

(Cap. 138) empowers the Pharmacy and Poisons Board to make

regulations to provide for, among other things, the control of

the dispensing of pharmaceutical products. Such regulations

require the approval of this Council. The Pharmacy and

Poisons (Amendment) Regulations which are tabled were made by

the Board on 2 January 1987, and Members' approval is sought

accordingly.

3

When I introduced the Pharmacy and Poisons

(Amendment) Bill 1986 into this Council in July last year, I

said that the Government had accepted the recommendation of

the Working Party on the Practice of Pharmacy and Ancillary

Matters that prescriptions should be dispensed only by

qualified pharmacists engaged by authorized sellers of poisons

or in other approved outlets. Regulation 4 puts this

recommendation into practice by prohibiting listed sellers of

poisons from dispensing prescriptions.

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