Hong Kong Regulations

PHARMACY AND POISONS REGULATIONS - REGULATION 4

Extension of labelling provisions and relaxation with respect to poisons in the Sixth Schedule

(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the provisions of section 27 and regulations 12
to 17 (which provisions relate to the labelling of poisons) shall apply to
sales exempted by section 32, and shall also apply to the supply of poisons
(otherwise than on sale) and references in those provisions to the sale and
the seller of poisons shall be deemed to refer to the supply and the supplier
of poisons respectively.

(2) In the case of the sale or supply of any of the poisons included in the
Sixth Schedule to a person who-

   (a)  carries on a business in the course of which poisons are regularly
        sold by way of wholesale dealing or are regularly used in the
        manufacture of other articles; and

   (b)  requires the poison for the purpose of that business, if the outside
        of the package in which the poison is sold or supplied is labelled
        conspicuously with words indicating the dangerous properties of the
        poison, it shall be necessary to comply only with regulation 15 and
        section 27(a) and section 27(d) (as modified by regulation 17).