The Australasian medical directory and handbook / edited by Ludwig Bruck.

Date:
1886
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Credit: The Australasian medical directory and handbook / edited by Ludwig Bruck. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    before delivery thereof, provided always that whenever the purchaser states tliat sueh arsenic or strychnine or any prcpai'ation thereof is require<l not for any jiastoral or agricultural use, but for some other purpose for which such a/lmixturc would according to the rci)rcscntation of the purchaser render it unfit, such |Xji«on may be sold without the admixture hereinbefore specified. Penalties.—Every person offending against any of these regulations sliall for every such offence, upon summary conviction before two Justices, be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds. Medicines and loholesalc transactions excepted.—This Act shall not extend to the sale of any poison when made up as a medicine according to the prcscrij)tion of a medi- cal Practitioner, or in the form of homoeopathic medicine uidess in the crude state, mother tincture, or of a greater strength than the thu’d potency. Nor to the .sale of jtatent medicines or of photographic materials for the purpose of photography, nor to the sale of medicine dispensed by veterinary surgeons for animals under their treatment, nor to the sale of fly-poison papers or packets of poisonous mixtures for the destruction of vermin when duly marked as such ; nor shall it extend to any sales by wholesale dealers, in the ordinary course of wholesale dealing, if an order in writing signed by the purchaser shall be given for the supply of the same, provided that all such sales be entered in a book and the packages of poison be labelled as required. Board of Pharmacy.—The Governor with the advice of the Executive Council may appoint, for the purposes of this Act, a Board of Pharmacy, to consist of the President of the New South Wales Medical Board, the Medical Adviser to the Govern- ment, and the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of New South Wales. Unqualified persons not alloioed to .sell Poisons.—No person shall sell any poison unless he shall have received a certificate from the said Board that he is duly qualified to be a dealer in poisons, and any person so selling without such certificate shall be 1 iable to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds. Certificate of Qualification.—^No person shall receive such certificate unless he shall prove to the satisfaction of the said Board that he has been duly admitted a I’haimaccutical Chemist by the Phaimaceutical Society of Great Britain, or a Member or Licentiate of the Apothecaries Halls of London or Dublin—Or has received a certificate as a legally qualified Medical Practitioner—Or is entitled to be certified as such under the authority of the Acts passed in the second, ninth, and nineteenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty and numbered respectively twenty-two, twelve, and seventeen—Or unless he be a jjersou who shall at the time of the passing of this Act be carrying on business as a chemist and druggist in New South 1\ ales—Or unless he shall make a declaration, accompanied by a certificate, that he has served as an apprentice or assistant to a chemist and druggist for not less than three yeara, and during that period been actually engaged in the dispensing and compounding of medical prescriptions, and been examined as to his skill and competency to conduct the business of chemist and druggist. Provided always that in places remote from large towns any person who shall produce a certificate from a legally qualific<l Medical Practitioner and a Police Magistrate that he is a fit and proper peraon to bcallow^ to .sell poisons in such place, shall receive a certificate as a “ dealer in poison. Such l)crsons shall be entillcd to be registered upon paying a fee of one pound for such registration. However, any chemist and druggist claiming to be registered must send to the Sccrctaiy of the said Board (who shall also be the llcgisti*ar foz'tlie purposes of this Act) a claim in the prescribed foim. Penalty.—Any person selling any poison otherwise than isihercin jirovidcd shall, uj)on summary conviction thereof, before any two Justices be liable to a penalt^ not exceeding twenty ])ounds, and for the purposes of this section the peraon on behalf any such sale is made by any ap|)renticc or servant shall be deemed to be the seller, provided always that such apprentice or servant shall be liable to a like penalty. Karnes to he erased from the Beyister.—'Vhc Governor, with the advice (ff the ExccutivOvCouncil, may direct the namcof any peraon, who isconvictetl of any offence against this act whicli in their opinion rendera him unfit, or who shall be nwnnxl by them unfit through habitual intoxication or otherwise to be on the register, to be erased from the same, and the Secretary and Registrar shall erase his name accordingly.