igog.] Poisons and Pharmacy Act, 1908. 



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tobacco, if the person so selling or keeping open shop is duly licensed 

 for the purpose under this section by a local authority, and conforms 

 to any regulations as to the keeping, transporting, and selling of poisons 

 made under this section," but the section is not to exempt any person 

 so licensed from the requirements of any other provision of the Pharmacy 

 Act, 1868, or of the Arsenic Act, 1851, relating to poisons. 



It is further provided that His Majesty may, by Order in Council, 

 make regulations for the purpose of carrying this section into effect, 

 and the following Regulations have been made by Order in Council, 

 dated the 2nd day of April, 1909 : — 



1. A licence shall not be granted to any person unless the local 

 authority are satisfied that he is fit to be entrusted with the sale of the 

 poisonous substances. 



2. In granting licences for the sale of poisonous substances for use 

 exclusively in horticulture, preference shall be given to nurserymen, 

 florists, seedsmen, and other persons whose business is specially con- 

 nected with horticulture. 



3. Applications for licences shall be in the form set forth in Schedule 

 A. to these regulations. 



4. Before sending an application for a licence to the local authority 

 the applicant shall publish notice of his intention to apply in two news- 

 papers circulating in the district of the local authority, and shall also 

 send notice by registered post to the Chief Officer of Police of the 

 Police area within which his premises are situate. 



5. A licence shall not be granted -until after the expiration of at least 

 fourteen days from the receipt of the application by the local authority, 

 and the local authority before granting a licence shall take into con- 

 sideration whether in the neighbourhood where the applicant for the 

 licence carries on or intends to carry on business the reasonable require- 

 ments of the public with respect to the purchase of poisonous substances 

 are satisfied, and also any objections they may have received from the 

 Chief Officer of Police or from any existing vendors of the substances 

 to which the application relates. 



6. A licence shall be in the form set forth in Schedule B. to these 

 regulations. 



7. A licence shall expire on such day in the year as the local 

 authority fix, but may, on application being made in the form set forth 

 in Schedule C. to these regulations, be renewed from time to time for 

 one year at a time, subject to the same provisions as in the case of 

 the grant of a licence, except that it shall not be necessary to publish 

 or give to the Chief Officer of Police notice of the application. The 

 renewal of a licence shall be in the form set forth in Schedule D. to 

 these regulations. 



8. A licence may be revoked or suspended for such term as the 

 local authority think fit, if the local authority are satisfied that the 

 licensee has "failed to comply with the requirements of these regulations 

 or of the Poisons Acts, or that the licensee is not a fit person to be 

 entrusted with the sale of poisons. 



9. A licensee shall, on being required to do so by any officer of the 

 local authority or any police officer, produce his licence, and any renewal 

 thereof. 



10. The fees charged in respect of the grant and renewal of a licence 



