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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 17, 1914.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

No. 136.

Regulations made by the Governor-in-Council under the provisions of Section & (h) of the Pharmacy Ordinance, 1908, (Ordinance No. 12 of 1908), this 2nd day of April, 1914.

REGULATIONS RELATING TO THE SALE, POSSESSION, IMPORTation, and EXPORTATION OF POISONS.

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1. No person may have in his possession custody or power a greater quantity than 12 official doses of any of the poisons mentioned in the Schedule to the Pharmacy Amendment Ordinance, 1910: Provided that the persons enumerated in Section 11 sub-sections (3) (a), (c) and (d) of the Pharmacy Ordinance, 1908, and such licentiates of the Hongkong College of Medicine whose names appear in the Schedule to these Regulations may have in their possession a quantity reasonably required for their practice, and provided that "registered persons" (as defined by Section 2 thereof) may have in their possession a quantity reasonably required for retailing dispensing or compounding but which quantity in the case of "registered persons" shall not at any one time exceed five pounds in weight of any such poison except with the permission in writing of the Principal Civil Medical Officer.

2. Except to the persons enumerated in Section 11 sub-sections (3) (a), (c) and (d) of the Pharmacy Ordinance, 1908, and to such licentiates of the Hongkong College of Medicine whose names appear in the Schedule to these Regulations no "registered person" shall supply to any person any of the poisons mentioned in the Schedule to the Pharmacy Amendment Ordinance, 1910, unless it has been prescribed by some duly qualified medical practitioner or by some licentiate of the Hongkong College of Medicine whose name appears in the Schedule to these Regulations or by any such approved person.

3. Every "registered person" shall keep a book of certificates with counterfoils numbered consecutively and shall give to each duly qualified medical practitioner or licentiate of the Hongkong College of Medicine whose name appears in the Schedule to these Regulations or person approved as aforesaid to whom he supplies any of the poisons mentioned in the Schedule to the Pharmacy Amendment Ordinance, 1910, a certificate con- taining the particulars set forth in Schedule B to the Pharmacy Ordinance, 1908, and shall enter the same particulars in the counterfoil.

4. When a "registered person" supplies any of the poisons mentioned in the Schedule to the Pharmacy Amendment Ordinance, 1910, on the prescription of some duly qualified medical practitioner or of some licentiate of the Hongkong College of Medicine whose name appears in the Schedule to these Regulations or of any such person approved as aforesaid the bottle, package or other receptacle in which it is supplied shall be labelled with the name and address of the seller and such registered person shall enter particulars of the ingredients and the name and address of the person to whom it is supplied in the book referred to in the proviso to Section 11 of the Pharmacy Ordinance, 1908.

5. When any of the poisons mentioned in the Schedule to the Pharmacy Amendment Ordinance, 1910, is imported into the Colony no person shall apply for or take delivery of the poison so imported unless he has truly declared before the Superintendent of Imports and Exports the nature and quantity of the poison so imported.

6. All registered persons shall enter in a stock book a description of and the quantity and weight of and the date of receipt of any of the poisons mentioned in the Schedule to the Pharmacy Amendment Ordinance, 1910, received by him.

7. For the purpose of these Regulations "official dose" means a quantity equal to the maximum safe dose according to the British Pharmacopoeia, British Pharmaceutical Codex, or Extra Pharmacopœia.

8. No person shall export any of the poisons mentioned in the Schedule to the Phar- macy Amendment Ordinance, 1910, to any country which prohibits or restricts the import of such poison, except in such quantities and subject to such regulations as may be prescrib- ed by the country to which such export is intended, provided that the names of all countries which prohibit or restrict the import of any of the said poisons and the regulations prescrib- ed by such countries shall be notified in the Gazette.

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