Pharmacy and Poisons Act, 1933 : 23 & 24 Geo. 5. Ch. 25.

  • Great Britain.
Date:
[1933]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Pharmacy and Poisons Act, 1933 : 23 & 24 Geo. 5. Ch. 25. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PHARMACY AND POISONS ACT, 19838 (23 & 24 Guo: 5. CH. 25). POISONS I. THE POISONS LIST prepared and submitted for the approval of the Secretary of State by the Poisons Board in accordance with section 17 of the Act. II. Draft of the RULES to be made by the Secretary of State in pursuance of section 23 of the Act. NOTE. The recommendations of the Poisons Board, together with an explanatory Report have been published by H. M. Stationery Office (Cmd. 4912, 1935). Certain provisions only of the Pharmacy and Poisons reg 1938, are at present in force.* By an Order in Council, dated June 6th, 1985, January Ist, 1936, has been appointed as the day upon which sections 7 to 14 shall come into force, and May Ist, 1936, has been appointed as the day upon which the remaining sections of the Act, which include the pro- visions replacing the existing law relating to the control of the sale and supply of poisons, shall come into operation. Notice has been given in the London Gazette of June 18th, 1935, in accordance with the Rules Publication Act, 18938, that it is pro- posed, after forty days, to make Rules in pursuance of section 23 of the Pharmacy & Poisons Act. Notice was also given of the intention of the Secretary of State to confirm the Poisons List. as prepared and submitted to him by the Poisons Board and to make an Order in pursuance of section 20 (4) of the Act, as recommended by the Poisons Board, approving, for the purposes of that section, any hospital, infirmary or dispensary maintained by any public authority or out of any public fund or by a HERER or Ey voluntary subscriptions. Jt is intended that the Rules shall come into force on May Ist, 1936, the date upon which the Act is to come mto full operation ; and on that date the existing statutory provisions in regard to the sale and supply of poisons will cease to have effect. It should be noted that until May Ist, 1936, the substances subject to control are those included in the Schedule to the Poisons and Pharmacy Act, 1908, as amended by Order in Council (the current ‘‘ Schedule of Poisons ’’) and not those included in the Poisons List, although the Poisons List may have been confirmed before that date. | * Viz., Sections 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 16, 17, 26 and (in part) 31 (4). _ [Price 8d. Net]