1950_PENICILLIN_ORDINANCE — Page 2

CAP. 137]

Control of sale and supply of

substances to which this Ordinance applies.

Penicillin.

4. (1) Subject to the provisions of this section, no person shall sell or otherwise supply any substance to which this Ordinance applies or any preparation of which any such substance is an ingredient or part unless he is-

(a) a registered medical practitioner, a registered dentist or a veterinary surgeon or a person acting in accordance with the directions of any such medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon, and the substance or preparation is sold or supplied for the purpose of treatment by or in accordance with the directions of that medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon; or

(b) a registered pharmacist or an authorized seller of poisons, and the substance or preparation is sold or supplied under the authority of a prescription signed and dated by such medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon as aforesaid.

(2) No person shall administer by way of treatment any such substance or preparation unless he is such a medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon.

(3) Subsection (1) shall not apply to the sale or supply

of any such substance or preparation—

(a) by way of wholesale dealing;

(b) for the purpose of being exported;

(c) to any such medical practitioner, dentist

veterinary surgeon as aforesaid;

or

(d) to any authority or person carrying on a hospital, clinic, nursing home or other institution providing medical, surgical or veterinary treatment;

an institution or

(e) to any person carrying on

business which has among its recognizing activities the conduct of scientific education or research, for use by persons engaged in that education or research; or

(f) to any public department.

(4) The person dispensing a prescription shall comply with the following requirements—

(a) if the prescription contains a direction that it may be dispensed a stated number of times or, at stated intervals, it must not be dispensed otherwise than in accordance with the direction;

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