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Regulations for keeping, etc., of poisons

Cap. 311, s. 24 · Revised Edition 2020

(1) It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, or keep open a shop for retailing, dispensing or compounding, poisons unless 15 he conforms to the following provisions or to any regulations, providing, (a) that in the keeping of poisons, each bottle, vessel, box or package, containing a poison be labeled with the name of the article, and also with some distinctive mark indicating that it contains poison; (b) that in the keeping of poisons, each poison be kept in a bottle, vessel, box or package in a cupboard set apart for dangerous articles, the cupboard to be kept locked; (c) that in the dispensing and selling of poisons, all liniments, embrocations, lotions and liquid disinfectants containing poison be sent out in blue bottles rendered distinguishable by touch from ordinary medicine bottles, and that there also be affixed to every bottle, vessel, box or package, in which poison is delivered, sold or dispensed, in addition to the name of the article, and to any particular instructions for its use, a label giving notice that the contents of the bottle are not to be taken internally. (2) Any person who contravenes this section or any regulations made thereunder commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars and in default of payment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months.
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