Saving clause

(1) Nothing in this Act shall extend to, (a) the sale or supply of medicines or poisons by any duly registered medical practitioner to his patient, Provided that such drugs or poisons are dispensed or sold by him or some person under his supervision; 19 (b) the sale of any drug not being a poison by wholesale to retail dealers other than chemists and druggists in the ordinary course of wholesale dealing; (c) the sale of any drug or poison to any person registered under this Act or to any duly qualified medical practitioner; (d) the sale by any person of the following (i) controlled drugs under and in accordance with the Misuse of Drugs Act, Cap. 103, or any statutory modification or replacement of the same; (ii) mineral or artificial waters or the salts or other material employed in their preparation; (iii) medicinal substances in common use mentioned in the Sixth Schedule, or any other substance which the Minister may by Order published in the Gazette declare to be added to the said Schedule; (iv) any herb, vegetable, gum, oil or seed, not being a poison, in its natural state, or not specially prepared so as to be fitted for medicinal use only, though the same may be used in medicine; (v) articles, not being poisons, which are to be used for flavouring foods or drinks or for perfumery, painting, 20 tanning, dyeing, soap making or any other industrial art or manufacture. (2) Notwithstanding anything in this Act, the Minister may, whenever satisfied that it is for the convenience of the public in any area to do so, by Order published in the Gazette, authorise the sale in that area of any poisons used for sanitary, industrial, agricultural or veterinary purposes specified in the Seventh Schedule so long as the poisons are confined to the substances enumerated in the second column of the said Schedule, or such drugs and patent or proprietary medicines as may be specified in such Order by persons not duly licensed under this Act, and may by any subsequent Order similarly made, revoke or vary any such authority. (3) The drugs or medicines that may be sold in any area, the boundaries of any area and the names of the persons authorised to sell, shall be published in the Gazette. (4) The Minister may, by a like Order, make rules regulating the sale of poisons, drugs and medicines under subsection (3) of this section and may by any subsequent Order similarly made, revoke or amend any such rule. (5) Every person who contravenes any rules made under this section commits an offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.