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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 16, 1917.

HONGKONG.

No. 8 OF 1917.

I assent to this Ordinance.

F. H. MAY,

LS

Governor.

16th March, 1917.

An Ordinance to amend the Pharmacy and

Poisons Ordinance, 1916.

[16th March, 1917.]

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

and con-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Pharmacy and Short title Poisons Amendment Ordinance, 1917, and shall be read struction. and construed as one with the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, 1916, hereinafter called the Principal Ordi- Ordinance nance, and this Ordinance and the said Ordinance may be cited together as the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinances, 1916 and 1917.

No. 9 of 1916.

of Ordinance

2. Section 16 of the Principal Ordinance is amended Amendment by the deletion of the words "in respect of which an No. 9 of offence has been committed' in the sixth and seventh 1916, s. 16. lines thereof, and by the substitution therefor of the words "if any offence has been committed in respect of such poison or syringe or other appliance".

of Ordinance

3. Section 18 of the Principal Ordinance is amended Amendment by the substitution of the word "place" for the word

premises" "in the fifth line thereof.

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No. 9 of 1916, s. 18.

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No. 9 of

4. Sub-section (1) of section 19 of the Principal Ordi- Amendment nance is amended by the substitution of the word "place' for the word "premises" in the first line of paragraph (6) 1916, s. 19. thereof.

5. Section 21 of the Principal Ordinance is amended as Amendment follows:-

of Ordinance No. 9 of

(a) by the deletion of the words "in respect of 1916, s. 21.

which an offence has been committed" in the eighth and ninth lines thereof and by the substitution therefor of the words "and that an offence has been committed in respect of such poison or syringe or other appliance"; (b) by the deletion of the words "dwelling house, shop, building" in the fourth line of paragraph (a) of sub-section (1) thereof;

(c) by the insertion of the words "or designated" after the word "named in paragraph (c) of sub-section (1) thereof;

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(d) by the deletion of the words "in respect of which an offence has been committed in the eleventh and twelfth lines of sub-section (3) thereof, and by the substitution therefor of the words "and that an offence has been committed in respect of such poison or syringe or other appliance".

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