Hong Kong Regulations

PHARMACY AND POISONS REGULATIONS - REGULATION 11

Restriction of sale of strychnine

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) No person shall sell or supply strychnine except as an ingredient in a
medicine.

(2) This regulation shall extend to transactions exempted by section 32, but
shall not apply to the sale of strychnine-

   (a)  by way of wholesale dealing;

   (b)  to be exported to purchasers outside Hong Kong;

   (c)  for the purpose of being compounded in medicines prescribed or
        administered by a registered medical practitioner or registered
        veterinary surgeon; or (L.N. 614 of 1997)

   (d)  to a person or institution concerned with education, scientific
        research or chemical analysis, for the purpose of that education,
        research or analysis.