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shall be such as the local authority may determine, not exceeding in 

 the case of the grant of a licence, 10s. 6d. t and in the case of the 

 renewal of a licence, is. 6d. 



11. A licence shall not authorise the licensee to sell or keep open 

 shop for the sale of poisonous substances except from or on premises 

 (to be specified in the licence) within the area of the local authority 

 which granted it, and for the purpose of these regulations a municipal 

 borough the council of which is a local authority for those purposes, 

 and in Scotland a police burgh, shall not be treated as forming part of 

 any county. 



12. Every local authority shall keep a register of the licences granted 

 by them for the time being in force, and any person shall, at all 

 reasonable times, upon payment of such reasonable fees as may be 

 fixed by the local authority, be entitled to inspect and to make copies 

 of, or take extracts from, the register. 



13. All poisonous substances shall be kept in a separate drawer or 

 closed receptacle apart from any other goods, and poisonous substances 

 shall not be sold upon the same premises as articles of 'food for human 

 consumption unless the Local Authority are satisfied that convenient 

 arrangements for their sale cannot otherwise be made, and in that 

 case they must be sold at a separate counter. For the purpose of this 

 regulation a part of a counter which is shown to the satisfaction of 

 the Local Authority to be adequately separated from the rest of the 

 counter shall be treated as a separate counter. 



14. A poisonous substance shall not be sold except in an enclosed 

 vessel or receptacle as received from the manufacturer, distinctly labelled 

 with the name of the substance and the word " Poison," and with the 

 name and address of the seller, and with a notice of the special purpose 

 for which it has been prepared. 



15. Liquid preparations shall be sold only in bottles, tins, drums, or 

 casks of sufficient strength to bear the ordinary risk of transit without 

 leakage. Each bottle, tin, drum, or cask shall have the word " Poison- 

 ous " indelibly printed, marked, or branded in easily legible characters 

 in a conspicuous position apart from the label, and the label must bear 

 the word " Poison." When sold in bottles the bottles shall be of a 

 distinctive character so as to be easily distinguishable by touch from 

 ordinary bottles. 



16. Solid preparations shall be securely packed in such a manner 

 as to avoid, so far as possible, the risk of breaking or leakage during 

 transport, and the package shall have indelibly printed, marked, or 

 branded in easily legible characters in a conspicuous position notice 

 that it must not be used for any other purpose. 



17. All premises from or on which a licensee is authorised to sell 

 or keep open shop for the saie of poisonous substances shall at all 

 reasonable times be open to inspection by officers appointed by a local 

 authority. 



18. For the purposes of these regulations the expression " poisonous 

 substances " means the poisonous substances to which Section 2 of the 

 Poisons and Pharmacy Act, 1908, applies for the time being, and the 

 expressions " chief officer of police " and " police area " have in 

 England and Scotland the same meanings as in the Police Act, 1890, 

 and the Police (Scotland) Act, 1890, respectively. 



