944 THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 24, 1931.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
No. 837.-The following Conditions and Tariff of Charges for Analytical Examinations for the Public, in the Government Laboratory, will take effect on and from 1st January, 1932.
Samples are analysed for the general public under the following conditions and at the following rates :--
CONDITIONS:
(1) Postage or freight must be prepaid.
(2) Applications and samples should be addressed to the Government Analyst, who will inform the applicant as to the cost of the examination, and will give a bill for the same which must at once be paid to the Colonial Treasurer.
(3) The right is reserved of refusing samples from beyond the boundaries of the Colony, or such samples as may not be considered of sufficient public importance to warrant analysis.
(4) The locality from which the samples come must be clearly described. (5) Crushed samples will not be received for analysis under any circumstances. (6) All samples analysed will remain the property of the Government.
(7) The Government will not recognise any claims arising from the results of
analysis.
TARIFF OF CHARGES.
SERVICE.
(a) Analyses of Food Materials:
When any substance of the nature of a food, or a drug is required to be examined as to evidence of purity or freedom from adulteration, a uniform charge of Five Dollars is made in accordance with section 11 of The Sale of Food and Drugs Ordinance, 1896.
The term "food" shall include every food or article used for food or drink by man, other than drugs and water. The term drug" shall include medicine for internal or external use. (Section 2 of the Sale of Food and Drugs Ordinance, 1866.)
(b) Water:-
Analysis:-(Total solids, Chlorine, Nitrates, Absorbtion of Oxygen, Free and Albumenoid Ammonia, Nitrites, and Hardness)
Qualitative Analysis of Mineral Water
Quantitative
Hardness only
do.
25.00
15.00
50.00
5.00
(c) Minerals and Metals :-
Identification only
5.00
Qualitative Examination for one Constituent
10.00
Complete Qualitative Analysis
25.00
Quantitative Analysis for the principal constituent
30.00
Each extra Constituent
10.00
Complete Analysis
80.00
CHARGE.
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