Hong Kong Regulations

PHARMACY AND POISONS REGULATIONS - REGULATION 19

Storage of poisons

PART IV

STORAGE AND TRANSPORT

(1) No person shall store any poison except in a container impervious to the
poison and sufficiently stout to prevent leakage from the container arising
from the ordinary risks of handling.

(2) No person shall store any substance included in the First Schedule in any
retail shop or premises used in connection therewith unless the substance is
stored-

   (a)  in a receptacle reserved solely for the storage of poisons, which
        receptacle shall be locked with an adequate lock the key for which
        shall be retained by the registered pharmacist; and (L.N. 197 of 1989;
        L.N. 366 of 1995)

   (b)  in a part of the premises to which customers are not permitted to have
        access and which is partitioned off or otherwise separated from the
        remainder of the premises.

(3) No food shall be stored in the part of the premises where such poison or
substance is stored.