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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 28, 1937.

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11.-(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, a body Conditions corporate carrying on a business which comprises the retail to be sale of drugs shall be an authorised seller of poisons within the meaning of this Ordinance if the following conditions are corporate complied with:-

body

in order to become authorised

(a) the business must, so far as concerns the keeping, seller of retailing, dispensing and compounding of poisons, be under poisons. the management of a superintendent in relation to whom the 23 & 24 following requirements are fulfilled :----

(i) he must be a registered pharmacist;

(ii) a statement in writing signed by him and on behalf of the body corporate stating his name and specifying whether or not he is a member of the board must have been sent to the registrar;

(iii) he must not be acting at the time in a similar capacity for any other body corporate; and

(b) in each set of premises where the business is carried on, the business must, so far as concerns the retail sale of drugs, if not under the personal control of the superintendent, be carried on, subject to the directions of the superintendent, under the personal control of a manager or assistant who is a registered pharmacist; and

(c) the name and certificate of registration of the person having the control of the business as aforesaid, whether he is the superintendent or some other person, must be con- spicuously exhibited in the premises.

(2) Notwithstanding the restrictions imposed by the foregoing provisions of this Ordinance on the use of certain titles, emblems and descriptions, a body corporate which is an authorised seller of poisons may, if the superintendent is a member of the board, use the description of chemist and druggist", or of chemist, or of druggist, or of dispensing chemist or dispensing druggist, and may use the description

pharmacy in connection with the business :

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Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall authorise the use of any of the said descriptions in or on any premises which are for the time being disqualified by virtue of a direction under this section from being registered in the register of premises, or in connection with any business so far as it is carried on in any premises so disqualified.

(3) If-

(a) a body corporate which is an authorised seller of poisons has been convicted of an offence under this Ordin-

ance; or

(b) any member of the board or any officer of that body, or any person employed by that body in carrying on the business, has been convicted of any such criminal offence, or been guilty of any such misconduct as, in the opinion of the Governor in Council renders him, or would if he were a registered pharmacist render him, unfit to be on the register:

the Governor in Council may inquire into the case and may, subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, direct-

(i) that the body corporate shall cease to be an authorised seller of poisons, and be disqualified, for such period as may be specified in the direction, from being an authorised seller of poisons; or

Geo, 5,

c. 25, s. 9.

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