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[Subsidiary]

First Schedule.

L.N. 71/64. L.N. 40/73.

L.N. 175/69.

(Cap. 165.)

(Cap. 136.)

(Cap. 161.)

(Cap. 156.)

(Cap. 138.)

CAP. 295] Dangerous Goods (General) Regulations

(1983 Ed.

(3) No person shall store or convey, or cause or permit to be stored or conveyed, any container containing any substance, specified in the first column of the table to this regulation unless such container is enclosed in protective or outer packing of the type specified in the fourth column of the table opposite the type of packing specified for that substance in the second column of the table.

(4) No person shall store or convey, or cause or permit to be stored or conveyed, any substance specified in the first column of the table to this regulation unless every main or inner packing and every protective or outer packing containing such substance bears the label or labels prescribed in the First Schedule indicated by the letter or letters appearing in the fifth column of the table opposite that substance:

Provided that, where any inner packing of any such substance is already conspicuously marked in English and Chinese in such manner as to indicate that the contents are inflammable or a strong supporter of combustion, nothing in this paragraph shall be con- strued to require the substitution therefor, or the addition thereto, of any label prescribed in the First Schedule.

(5) Section 6 of the Ordinance shall not apply to the storage of any substance specified in the first column of the table to this regulation-

(a) in any quantity not exceeding that, if any, specified for that

substance in the sixth column of the table; or

(b) in any quantity not exceeding that, if any, specified for that substance in the seventh column of the table if stored solely-

(i) for use in and for the purposes of a hospital or maternity home in respect of which a person is registered under the Hospitals, Nursing Homes and Maternity Homes Registration Ordinance;

(ii) for use in and for the purposes of a mental hospital within the meaning of the Mental Health Ordinance;

(iii) by or on behalf of, and for the purposes of the practice of, a registered medical practitioner within the meaning of the Medical Registration Ordinance;

(iv) by or on behalf of, and for the purposes of the practice of, a registered dentist within the meaning of the Dentists Registration Ordinance;

(v) by or on behalf of, and for the purposes of the business of, an authorized seller of poisons within the meaning of the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance; or

(vi) for use in and for the purposes of any laboratory.