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Ordinance No. 9 of 1916,

Licences,

etc., to be at the

discretion

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(b) prohibiting the manufacture, sale, possession, move- ment or distribution of any such drug except by persons licensed or otherwise authorized under the regulations and subject to any conditions specified in the licence or authority;

(c) regulating the issue by medical practitioners of prescriptions containing any such drug and the dispensing of any such prescriptions; and

(d) requiring persons engaged in the manufacture, sale or distribution of any such drug to keep such books and furnish such information either in writing or otherwise as may be prescribed.

(2) The regulations under this section shall provide for authorising any person who lawfully keeps open shop for the retailing of poisons in accordance with the provisions of the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, 1916,-

(a) to manufacture at the shop in the ordinary course of his retail business any preparation, admixture, or extract of any dangerous drug; or

(b) to carry on at the shop the business of retailing, dispensing, or compounding any such drug;

subject to the power of the Superintendent to withdraw the authorization in the case of a person who has been convicted of an offence against this Ordinance, and who cannot. in the opinion of the Superintendent, properly be allowed to carry on the business of manufacturing or selling or distributing, as the case may be, any such drug.

(3) All regulations made under this Ordinance shall be laid on the table of the Legislative Council at the first meeting thereof held after the publication in the Gazette of the making of such regulations, and if a resolution is passed at the first meeting of the Legislative Council held after such regulations have been laid on the table of the said Council resolving that any such regulation shall be rescinded, or amended in any manner whatsoever, the said regulation shall, without prejudice to anything done thereunder, be deemed to be rescinded, or amended, as the case may be, as from the date of publication in the Gazette of the passing of such resolution.

(4) Nothing in any regulation made under this section shall be taken to authorise the sale, or the keeping of an open shop for the retailing, dispensing, or compounding of, poisons by any person who is not qualified in that behalf under, or otherwise than in accordance with, the provisions of the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, 1916, or to be in derogation of the provisions of the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, 1916, for prohibiting, restricting, or regulating the sale of poisons.

12.-(1)

12. (1) The granting or refusal of any licence, certificate or authorization under this Ordinance, and the revocation of any such licence, certificate or authorization, shall lie in the absolute discretion of the Superintendent, who 10 & 11 Geo. may impose any conditions that he may think fit upon the

granting of any such licence, certificate or authorization.

of Super- intendent.

5, c. 46, s. 12.

(2) It shall be lawful for the Superintendent to charge for any such licence, certificate or authorization such fee as the Governor in Council may by regulation prescribe.