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No. 1 of 1884.

No.10 of 1901.

No. 10.] THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG

Ordinance in force for the time being in the Colony, or entitled benefit of section 20 of the Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884. Provided that, if the medicine contains a poison included in either the List hereto annexed, the ingredients of the medicine, together with name of the person to whom it is sold or delivered, are entered in a book for that purpose ("Prescription-book"), and that the name and address of the seller are attached to the medicine.

NOTE.—By the Public Health Ordinance, 1901, any person who contravenes any of the above By-Laws is liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars or in default of payment, to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding three months.

LIST OF POISONS.

PART I.

Not to be sold unless the purchaser is known to, or is introduced by a person known to, the seller;

Entry to be made in "Poison-book":

1. Date of sale;

2. Name and address of purchaser;

3. Name and quantity of article sold;

4. Purpose for which it is wanted;

Attested by signature;

Must be labelled with—

1. Name of article.

2. The word "Poison."

3. Name and address of seller.

Arsenic, and its preparations (see also special regulations under Part I of this List);

Aconite, and its preparations;

Alkaloids.—All poisonous vegetable alkaloids and their salts;

Atropine, and its preparations;

Cantharides;

Corrosive Sublimate;

Cyanide of Potassium, and all metallic cyanides and their preparations;

Emetic Tartar;

Ergot of Rye, and its preparations;

Prussic Acid, and its preparations;

Savin, and its oil;

Strychnine, and its preparations;

Vermin Killers, if preparations of poisons the preparations of which are included in Part I of this List;