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Pharmacy and Poisons Regulations

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(2) This regulation shall extend to transactions exempted by section 32, but shall not apply to the sale of strychnine-

(a) by way of wholesale dealing;

(b) to be exported to purchasers outside Hong Kong;

(e) for the purpose of being compounded in medicines pre- scribed or administered by a registered medical practi- tioner or duly qualified veterinary surgeon; or

(d) to a person or institution concerned with education, scien- tific research or chemical analysis, for the purpose of that education, research or analysis.

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PART III

SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS WITH RESPECT TO LABELLING AND CONTAINERS

Manner of

containers.

12. (1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), the particulars with which the container of a poison is required to be labelled under labelling section 27 and under these regulations, shall appear in a conspicuous position on the container in which the poison is sold and on every box or other covering of whatever nature enclosing the container, and the particulars shall be clearly and distinctly set out and not in any way obscured or obliterated.

(2) Where the poison is contained in a cachet or similar article it shall not be necessary to label the article itself, if evey box or other covering in which the article is enclosed is labelled in accordance with paragraph (1).

(3) Nothing in section 27 or in this regulation or regulations 13 to 17 shall be deemed to require the labelling of any transparent cover or any wrapper, hamper, packing case, crate or other covering used solely for the purposes of transport or delivery.

13. (1) For the purposes of section 27(a) and regula- tion 22(3)(a), the name of a poison shall be the term under which it is included in the Poisons List:

Provided that, where the term describes a group of poisons and not the poison specifically, the name of the poison shall be-

(a) if the poison is the subject of a monograph in either the British Pharmacopoeia, the British Pharmaceutical Codex or the British Veterinary Codex, one of the names or synonyms or abbreviated names set out at the head of the monograph; or

(b) in any other case, the accepted scientific name or the name descriptive of the true nature and origin of the poison.

(2) For the purposes of the proviso to paragraph (1), where— (a) a substance is the subject of a monograph in the British Pharmacopoeia, the British Pharmaceutical Codex or the

Labelling of name of poison.