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Amendment

of Ordinance No. 9 of 1916, s. 19.

Amendment

fied

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(6) The seller must be reasonably satisfied that the signature affixed to the order is in fact the signature of the person purporting to sign it, and that the person is a registered medical practi- tioner;

(c) The article sold, if sent by post to the purchaser, must be sent by registered post;

(d) The seller must enter in the book, in the column assigned to the signatures of purchasers, the words *signed order" followed by the date on which the order is excented and must pre- serve the order for a period of two years from the date on which the final entry in the book is made:

Provided that, if a seller is reasonably satis- that a registered medica. practitioner desiring to purchase a poison urgently requires it for the purpose of his profession but is, by reason of some emergency, unsble, before delivery, either to furnish to the seller an order in writing duly signed, or to attend and sign the book. the seller may send the poison to the purchaser to be handed over to him either in exchange for such an order or on an under- taking by the purchaser to furnish sneb an order to the seller within the twenty-four hours next following, but if any purchaser by whom auy such undertaking as aforesaid has been given fails to deliver to the seller a signed order in necordance with the undertaking, of if any person for the purposes of obtaining delivery of any poison under the foregoing proviso makes a statement which is to his knowledge false, he shall be deemed to have procured the commission of an offence under section 12 of this Ordinance.

8. Section 19 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the addition of the following sub-section immediately after sub-section 2 thereof;-

(8) Where a body corporate is convicted of any offence against any provision of this Ordi- mance or of any regulation made thereunder, the chairman and every director and every officer concerned in the management of the company shall be guilty of the like offence unless he proves that the act constituting the offence rook place without his knowledge or consent.

9. The principal Ordinance is amended by the addition

of Ordinance of the following section immediately after section 28

No. 9 of

1916,

Insertion of

new section.

Amendment

thereof :--

Calculation of percent- ages in case of liquid.

13 and 14 Geo. 5, c. 5, s. 5.

29. For the purposes of this Ordinance, per- centages in the case of liquid preparations shall, unless other provision in that behalf is made by regulation, be calenlated on the basis that a preparation containing oue per cent. of of any substance means a preparation in which one gramme of the substance, if a solid, or one millilitre of the substance, if a liquid, is con- tained in every one hundred millilitres of the preparation, and so in proportion for any greater or less percentage.

10. Schedule A of the principal Ordinance shall be of Schedule A amended by the insertion between the words Schedule

of Ordinance A." and the words "Part I" at the commencement thereof No. 9 of 1916.

of the words :-" The following substances shall be treated as poisons whether sold under the name given or any other name."