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Dangerous Drugs
[1988 Ed.
(b) a person deemed to be a registered dentist under the Dentists Registration Ordinance; (Replaced, 62 of 1987, s. 10)
"ship" includes every description of vessel used in navigation or for the carriage or storage of goods on water;
"sister" includes any person performing the duties of a nursing sister and any person, whatever the title of the office which he holds, performing duties of the kind performed by a nursing sister;
"trafficking", in relation to a dangerous drug, includes importing into Hong Kong, exporting from Hong Kong, procuring, supplying or otherwise dealing in or with the dangerous drug, and "traffic in a dangerous drug" shall be construed accordingly;
"unlawful" or "unlawfully", in relation to trafficking in or manufacturing or storage of a dangerous drug, means otherwise than under and in accordance with this Ordinance or a licence issued thereunder; (Amended, 46 of 1971, s. 2)
"wholesale dealer" means a person who carries on the business of selling dangerous drugs to persons who buy to sell again, and "wholesale dealing" shall be construed accordingly. [cf. U.K. S.I. 1964/1811, reg. 32(1)]
(2) For the purposes of this Ordinance, a person shall be deemed to be in possession of a dangerous drug or a pipe, equipment or apparatus, as the case may be, if it is in his actual custody or is held by some other person subject to his control or for him and on his behalf. [cf. U.K. S.I. 1964/1811, reg. 20]
(3) Any quantity of a dangerous drug shall be a dangerous drug for the purposes of this Ordinance notwithstanding that the quantity is insufficient to be measured or used. (Added, 40 of 1982, s. 2)
Calculation of percentages for purposes of First Schedule, and extended meaning of “substance”
3. (1) For the purposes of the First Schedule-
(a) in the case of liquid preparations, percentages shall be calculated on the basis that a preparation containing 1 per cent of any substance means a preparation in which 1 gram of the substance if a solid, or 1 millilitre of the substance if a liquid, is contained in every 100 millilitres of the preparation, and so in proportion for any greater or less percentage; and
(b) in the case of salts, percentages shall be calculated as in respect of the anhydrous base.
(2) The specification in paragraph 1 of Part I of the First Schedule of a substance shall, if the existence of isomers of that substance is possible within the specific chemical designation thereof, be taken to comprehend the specification of any isomer of that substance whose existence is possible as aforesaid; and any other reference in the First Schedule to a substance specified in paragraph 1 of Part I thereof shall be construed accordingly. [cf. U.K. 1965 c. 15, s. 24(2)]
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CAP. 134]
Dangerous Drugs
[1988 Ed.
(b) a person deemed to be a registered dentist under the Dentists Registra-
tion Ordinance; (Replaced, 62 of 1987, s. 10)
"ship" includes every description of vessel used in navigation or for the carriage
or storage of goods on water;
"sister" includes any person performing the duties of a nursing sister and any person, whatever the title of the office which he holds, performing duties of the kind performed by a nursing sister;
"trafficking", in relation to a dangerous drug, includes importing into Hong Kong, exporting from Hong Kong, procuring, supplying or otherwise dealing in or with the dangerous drug, and "traffic in a dangerous drug" shall be construed accordingly;
"unlawful" or "unlawfully", in relation to trafficking in or manufacturing or storage of a dangerous drug, means otherwise than under and in accord- ance with this Ordinance or a licence issued thereunder; (Amended, 46 of 1971, s. 2)
"wholesale dealer" means a person who carries on the business of selling dangerous drugs to persons who buy to sell again, and "wholesale dealing" shall be construed accordingly. [cf. U.K. S.I. 1964/1811, reg. 32(1)]
(2) For the purposes of this Ordinance, a person shall be deemed to be in possession of a dangerous drug or a pipe, equipment or apparatus, as the case may be, if it is in his actual custody or is held by some other person subject to his control or for him and on his behalf. [cf. U.K. S.I. 1964/1811, reg. 20]
(3) Any quantity of a dangerous drug shall be a dangerous drug for the purposes of this Ordinance notwithstanding that the quantity is insufficient to be measured or used. (Added, 40 of 1982, s. 2)
Calculation of percentages for purposes of First Schedule, and extended meaning of “substance”
3. (1) For the purposes of the First Schedule-
(a) in the case of liquid preparations, percentages shall be calculated on the basis that a preparation containing 1 per cent of any substance means a preparation in which 1 gram of the substance if a solid, or 1 millilitre of the substance if a liquid, is contained in every 100 millilitres of the preparation, and so in proportion for any greater or less percentage; and
(b) in the case of salts, percentages shall be calculated as in respect of the
anhydrous base.
(2) The specification in paragraph 1 of Part I of the First Schedule of a substance shall, if the existence of isomers of that substance is possible within the specific chemical designation thereof, be taken to comprehend the specifica- tion of any isomer of that substance whose existence is possible as aforesaid; and any other reference in the First Schedule to a substance specified in paragraph 1 of Part I thereof shall be construed accordingly. [cf. U.K. 1965 c. 15, s. 24(2)]
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