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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 25, 1938.

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HONG KONG.

No. 24 or 1938.

1 assent.

L.S.

G. A. S. NORTHCOTE.

Governor.

25th November, 1938.

An Ordinance to amend the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordin-

ance, 1937.

[25th November, 1938.]

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Pharmacy and Short title. Poisons Amendment Ordinance, 1938.

2. The Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, 1937, amended by the insertion immediately after section 21, the following section as section 21A thereof.

is New s. 21A

of

for Ordin- ance No. 8 of 1937.

Possession of poison

21A. It shall not be lawful for a person to have any poison included in Part I of the Poisons List in his possession in Part I

unless-

of Poisons

List

in certain

(a) he is entitled under this Part of this Ordinance to prohibited sell the poison or is a wholesale dealer duly licensed under cases. this Ordinance to sell poisons; or

(b) the poison has been duly sold or supplied (the proof whereof shall lie upon him) by an authorized seller of poisons in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance and any regulations thereunder.

3. This Ordinance shall come into force on the first day Commence- of January, 1939.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 24th day of November, 1938.

ment.

B. C. K. HAWKINS,

Deputy Clerk of Councils.

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