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Objects and Reasons.

1. Clanse 2 of this Bill transfers, for the sake of conve- nience of administration, from the Colonial Secretary to the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services the custody and keeping of the Register kept under the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, 1916, and amends sections 3, 5 and 19 of that Ordinance accordingly.

Clause 2 also amends the Regulations made under that Ordinance in similar fashion three of such regul· tions effected by such amendments will be found on pages 732 and 733 of the Regulations of Hong Kong, 1844-

1925.

2. Clause 3 enables the Governor in Conneil to make regulations for the issue of licences to persons other than wholesale dealers and auctioneers to whom the issue of licences is at present limited.

3. The amendment effected by Clause 4 of this Ordi- nauce is necessary, because some persons are Pharmacen- tical Chemists whilst others are Chemists and Druggists, which latter is a lower qualification. Chemists and Drug- gists, therefore, have no right to be registered as Pharma- centical Chemists.

4. Clause 5 amends section 10 of the principal Ordi- nance so as to prevent the use by an unregistered person of the title of chemist, druggist, pharmaceutical chemist, pharmaceutist or pharmacist in any language whatever.

5. Clanse 6 amends section II of the principal Orli- nauce so as to make its provisions with regard to the labelling of poison correspond with the provisions of the English Act, 13 & 14 Geo. 5, c. 5, s. 4 (2).

6. Clanse 7 of the Bill amouls section 13 of the prin- cipal Ordinance by the addition of a sub-section (4) for the purpose of enabling registered medical practitioners and registered dental surges to buy poisons specified in section 12 subject to certain conditions.

7. Clause 8 of the Bil amnis section 19 of the pria- cipal Ordinance by the addition of a sub-section for the purpose of imposing a penalty on the Chairman and every Director and officer concerned in the management of the Company where the Company is convicted of an offence, unless such Chairman, Director or Officer proves that the act constituting the offence took place without his know. ledge or consent.

8. Clause 9 of the Bill amends the principal Ordinance by the addition of the section, to be numbered 29, which provides for the calculation of percentages in the case of a liquid.

9. Clause 10 of the Bill is introduced because it has been found that many poisons are being sold under newly invented trade names,

October, 1928.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.