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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 5, 1939.

General

Provided that this relaxation shall not apply in respect of the sale of any such preparation unless one month before such preparation is put up for sale the seller or the wholesale importer shall have submitted a sample thereof to the Registrar in the form intended to be put up for sale with particulars of the ingredients and the proportions by weight of Part T poisons therein contained.

8. Nothing in these Regulations shall apply, except as is expressly provided therein, to transactions exempted by transactious. section 20 of the Ordinance.

exemption of section 20

Exemption from the provisions relating solely to the First List.

Complete exemption for articles and sub-

stances in the Second

List.

Additional restriction

of sale of poisons in the Third List.

9. Such of the provisions of these Regulations, and of Part II of the Ordinance as modified by these Regulations, as apply solely with respect to the substances included in the First List to these Regulations, shall not apply with respect

to-

(a) machine-spread plasters; or

(b) surgical dressings; or

(e) articles containing barium carbonate and prepared for the destruction of rats and mice; or

(d) corn paints in which the only poison is a poison included in the Poisons List under the heading of "Cannabis"

10. Nothing in Part II of the Ordinance or these Poisons Regulations shall apply

(a) with respect to any article in Group I of the Second List under these Regulations; or

(b) so far as any poison specified in the first column of Group II of that List is concerned, with respect to any of the articles or substances specified in the second column opposite the description of the poison.

Additional Restrictions on the Sale of Poisons.

11. (1) It shall not be lawful to sell any poison included in the Third List to these Regulations, except on and in accordance with a prescription given by a registered medical practitioner, registered dentist or duly qualified veterinary surgeon in the form provided by this Regulation.

(2) This Regulation shall apply to the sale of any such poison, notwithstanding that it is a transaction exempted by section 20 of the Ordinance, but shall not apply to any sale exempted by section 21 of the Ordinance,

(3) for the purposes of this Regulation a prescription shall-

(a) be in writing and be signed by the person giving it with his usual signature and be dated by him:

(b) specify the address of the person giving it;

(e) specify the name and address of the person for whose treatment it is given or, if the prescription is given by a veterinary surgeon, of the person to whom the medicine is to be delivered;

(d) have written thereon, if given by a dentist, the words "For dental treatment only" or, if given by a veterinary surgeon, the words "For animal treatment only";