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June 1 , 1887 . 
THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST OF AUSTRALASIA. 
and upon the decease of any registered pharmaceutical che- 
mist actually in business at the time of his death it shall be 
lawful for any executor, administrator, or trustee of the estate 
of such pharmaceutical chemist to continue such business for 
a period of twelve months and no longer, unless by x^ermission 
of the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of South Aus- 
tralia, if and so long only as such business is hona fide con- 
ducted by a registered pharmaceutical chemist. 
PENALTY FOR FRAUDULENT REGISTRATION. 
25. Any deputy registrar or other person who shall wilfully 
make or cause to be made any falsification in any matter 
relating to the Pharmaceutical Register of South Australia 
for any year, and any person who shall wilfully procure or 
attemjpt to jprocure himself to be registered under this Act by 
making or xn*oducing, or causing to be made or produced, any 
false or fraudulent representation or declaration, either ver- 
bally or in writing, and any one aiding or assisting therein 
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour, punishable by fine 
or imx)risonment, and shall on conviction be liable to a penalty 
not exceeding Twenty Pounds, or to imprisonment for any 
term not exceeding twelve months. 
PENALTIES FOR OTHER OFFENCES. 
20. Prom and after six months from the date of the first 
appointment of the Council any xDerson who commits in South 
Australia any of the following offences shall, on conviction 
thereof, be liable to a penalty of not exceeding Ten Pounds 
for each offence, and may also be committed to prison for any 
period not exceeding six months : — 
(rt) Any person not being a registered pharmaceutical 
chemist who carries on or attempts to carry on busi- 
ness as a chemist and druggist, or homceopatliic 
chemist, or either, or makes or compounds any medi- 
cine for the i)urposes of sale, being composed of any 
drug or chemical so named. 
{h) Any person not being a registered pharmaceutical 
chemist who takes, uses, or exhibits the name or 
title of, or who x)retends to be a registered pharma- 
ceutical chemist, chemist and druggist, chemist, 
druggist, x)harmacist, pharmaceutist, x?harmaceuticai 
chemist, homceopathic chemist, dispensing chemist, 
or dispensing druggist, or medical herbalist, or other 
words of similar import, or uses or exhibits any or 
term, or sign, or symbol which may be construed to 
mean that he is qualified to f)erform the duties of a 
pharmaceutical chemist. 
(c) Any f)erson who fails to comply with the jn’ovisions 
of this Act, or any regulations made hereunder. 
Nothing in this Act shall prevent any person from being 
liable to any other x^enalty, damages, or punishment to 
which he would have been liable, if this Act had not been 
passed. 
OFFENCES AND PENALTIES. 
27. All offences under this Act shall be heard and deter- 
mined and all penalties imposed by this Act shall be re- 
covered in a summary manner before two Justices of the 
Peace in Petty Sessions, and all penalties, when recovered, 
shall be paid to the Council, to be apjdied towards the ex- 
penses of carrying this Act into effect, 
PERSON TO INCLUDE CORPORATIONS, &c 
28. The word person, wherever the same occurs in Part IV., 
shall be deemed to include any corporation, whether estab- 
lished by charter or otherwise, and any Company or Society 
registered duly in pursuance of the provisions of any Act of 
Parliament. 
Part V — Sale and Use of Poisons. 
ARTICLES TO BE DEEMED POISONS. 
29. The several articles mentioned in the Eighth Schedule 
hereto shall be deemed iDoisons within the meaning of this 
Act ; and, on the recommendation of the Council, the 
Governor-in-Council may, by proclamation duly published in 
the Government Gazette from time to time, declare that any 
other article specified in such i)roclamation shall be deemed a 
I)oison witliin the meaning of this Act. 
UNQUALIFIED PERSONS NOT TO SELL POISONS. 
80. Every person, otlier than a legally qualified medical 
practitioner, or a registered x^harmaceutical chemist, who 
shall sell any poison, shall, unless he hold a certificate from 
the Council that he is a fit and proper person to sell poisons, 
be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds. 
DEALERS IN POISONS. ^ 
81. In iDlaces distant, at least four miles from any city, 
town, or borough, and in which no registered pharmaceutical 
chemist has an open shop, any person who shall firodiice a 
certificate from a legally qualified medical practitioner, and a 
Police Magistrate, that he is a fit and proper person to be 
allowed to sell jioisons in such place, shall receive from the 
Council a certificate as a dealer in poisons on payment of a 
fee of twenty shillings j)er annum to such Council. Every 
dealer in poisons shall keej) all poisons mentioned in First 
Schedule in a cupboard. 
ON SALE OF POISONS ENTRY THEREOF TO BE MADE IN 
A BOOK. 
32. Every person who shall sell any poison specified in the 
Eighth Schedule hereto, shall, before the delivery thereof to 
the f)urchaser, inquire his name, ifiace of abode, and occuim- 
tion, and the purpose for which such poison is required, or 
stated to be required, and shall thereupon make a faithful 
entry of such sale, specifying the poison, and the quantity 
thereof, and all such particulars so given by the imrchaser, 
together with the day of the month and year of such sale, in 
a book to be kept by the vendor for that purpose in the form 
set forth in the Ninth Schedule hereto ; and every snch entry 
shall be signed by the person making the same, and also by 
the jourchaser, unless he shall declare himself unable to write 
(in which case the person making the entry shall add thereto 
the words, “Purchaser cannot write”); and whenever a 
witness to the sale is required by this Act, such entry shall be 
signed by such witness, together with his place of abode. 
When sales and purchases of poisons are made by cor- 
respondence, the letter ordering the same shall be xire- 
served by the vendor, and a memorandum of the date of the 
said letter, by whom it is written, and the quantity and par- 
ticulars of the j)oison therein ordered, shall be entered in the 
said book ; and no x>erson shall sell poison so ordered to any 
person with whose signature he is not acquainted unless such 
signature shall have been witnessed, or purport to have been 
witnessed, by a justice, clergyman, or j)ublic officer, or to be 
authenticated by some person known to the vendor. 
HOW VESSELS OR WRAPPERS CONTAINING POISON ;TO BE 
^BIARKED. 
33. No person shall sell any poison, either by wholesale or 
retail, unless the bottle or other vessel, wrapjper or cover, box 
or case, immediately containing the same bears thereon the 
word “Poison” printed conspicuously, together with the 
name of the article and the name and address of the seller 
thereof. 
ARSENIC AND STI^YCHNINE MUST BE COLOURED* 
34. No person shall sell any arsenic or strychnine or any 
preparation of the same respectively, unless, in the case of 
arsenic and any uncoloured preparation of tke same, such 
poison shall he mixed, before the sale or delivery thereof, 
with soot, in the x>rox)ortion of one ounce of soot, at least, to 
one pound of arsenic, and so in prox>ortion for any greater or 
less quantity; and unless in the case of strychnine or any un- 
coloured preparation of the same, such poison shall be coloured 
with armenian bole or other red colouring matter, before the 
sale or delivery thereof ; provided always that whenever the 
purchaser states that such arsenic or strychnine or any j^re- 
paration thereof respectively is required, not for any pastoral 
or agricultural use, but for some other imrpose for which such 
admixture would, according to the rejiresentation of the pur- 
chaser, render it unfit, such jjoison may be sold without the 
admixture hereinbefore specified. 
RESTRICTIONS AS TO SALE OF POISONS. 
35. No person shall sell any poison specified in the eighth 
schedule hereto to any person who is under eighteen years of 
age, or who is unknown to the vendor, unless the sale be made 
in the presence of some witness who is known to the vendor, 
and to whom the purchaser is known, and which witness signs 
his name, together with his place of abode, to the required 
entry before the delivery of the poison to the purchaser. 
OWNERS OF POISONS NOT TO LEAVE THEM ABOUT UN« 
LABELLED UNDER PENALTY. 
8G. Any owner, or other person whatsoever, in charge or 
liossession of any poison, who shall leave it in any x^lace 
(whether the same be ordinarily accessible to others or noc) 
unless the bottle or package of wliatever kind in whieh such 
poison may be contained shall be marked as “Poison” and 
be otherwise duly labelled in the manner provided by section 
six, shall be liable, on summary conviction thereof before any 
two justices, to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds. 
