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Dangerous Drugs.

(b) he is licensed or otherwise authorized to manufacture

or supply the drug; or

(c) he is licensed or otherwise authorized to be in

possession of the drug; or

(d) he proves that the drug was supplied for his use by a duly qualified medical practitioner or approved veterinary surgeon or on and in accordance with such a prescription as aforesaid : Provided that the provisions of paragraph (d) shall not apply to any drug supplied to a person for his use by a registered medical practitioner or in accordance with a prescription if that person was at the time of the supply in course of receiving treatment from another registered medical practitioner in respect of addiction to any of the drugs or otherwise and of being supplied with any of the drugs by or on a prescrip- tion given by that last mentioned practitioner, and did not disclose the fact to the first mentioned practitioner before the drug was supplied to him.

G.N.A. 79/51. Penalty: (i) upon indictment, a fine of fifty thousand

dollars and imprisonment for ten years;

(ii) upon summary conviction, a fine of ten thou- sand dollars and imprisonment for twelve months.

Marking of packages or bottles.

9. (1) No person shall supply any drug to which these regulations apply unless the package or bottle containing it is plainly marked with the amount of the drug in the package or bottle..

(2) No person shall supply any preparation, admixture, extract, or other substance containing any of these last- mentioned drugs and coming within these regulations unless the package or bottle is plainly marked-

(a) in the case of a powder, solution, or ointment, with the total amount thereof in the package or bottle and the percentage of the drug in the powder, solution, or ointment;

(b) in the case of tablets or other articles, with the amount of the drug in each article and the number of articles in the package or bottle.

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