Dangerous Drugs Act, 1965 : Elizabeth II 1965. Ch. 15.

  • Great Britain.
Date:
1965]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Dangerous Drugs Act, 1965 : Elizabeth II 1965. Ch. 15. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ParRT III 19330, 20, 1952 c. 44. 1941 c. 42. Cu. 15 Dangerous Drugs Act 1965 (c) regulating the issue by medical practitioners of prescrip- tions containing a substance for the time being so specified and the dispensing of any such prescriptions ; and (d) requiring persons engaged in the manufacture, sale or distribution of a substance for the time being so specified to keep such books and furnish such informa- tion either in writing or otherwise as may be prescribed by the regulations. (2) The regulations under this section shall provide for autho- rising a person lawfully carrying on business in accordance with the provisions of the Pharmacy and Poisons Act 1933 as an authorised seller of poisons— (a) in the ordinary course of his retail business to manu- facture, at any premises duly registered under Part I of that Act, any preparation, admixture or extract of a substance for the time being specified in Part I of the Schedule to this Act ; or (b) to carry on at any such premises as aforesaid the business of retailing, dispensing or compounding any such substance ; subject to the power of the Secretary of State to withdraw the authorisation in the case of a person who has been convicted of an offence against this Act or either of the former Acts relating to dangerous drugs or of an offence under the Customs and Excise Act 1952 or the enactments repealed thereby, being an offence in relation to a drug or other substance whose importa- tion or exportation was prohibited or restricted by this Act or either of the said former Acts, and who cannot, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, properly be allowed to carry on the business of manufacturing or selling or distributing, as the case may be, any such substance as aforesaid: but the Secre- tary of State shall, before withdrawing the authorisation in the case of any such person, consult the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. (3) Nothing in any regulations made under this section shall be taken to authorise the sale by retail of poisons by a person who is not qualified in that behalf under, or otherwise than in accordance with, the provisions of the Pharmacy and Poisons Act 1933 and the Pharmacy and Medicines Act 1941 or to be in derogation of the provisions of those Acts for prohibiting, restricting or regulating the sale of poisons. (4) This section shall, in its application to Northern Ireland, have effect with the substitution, in subsection (1) thereof, for references to a Secretary of State, of references to the Ministry