A POISON BILL FOR IRELAND. 747 
and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present 
Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :— 
1. The several articles mentioned in the schedule A. to this Act annexed 
shall be deemed to be poisons within the meaning of this Act; and the Governor 
and Council of the Apothecaries’ Hall of the City of Dublin may from time to 
time, by resolution, declare that any article other than those mentioned in the 
said schedule and in such resolution named ought to be deemed a poison within 
the meaning of this Act; and thereupon the said Council shall submit the said 
resolution for the approval of her Majesty’s Privy Council in Ireland, and if 
such approval shall be given, then such resolution and approval shall be adver¬ 
tised in the ‘ Dublin Gazette and on the expiration of one month from such 
advertisement the article named in such resolution shall be deemed to be a poison 
within the meaning of this Act. 
2. It shall be unlawful to sell any poison, either by wholesale or by retail, 
unless the box, bottle, vessel, wrapper, or cover in which such poison is contained 
be distinctly labelled with the name of the article, and the word “ poison,” and 
with the name and address of the seller of the'poison ; and it shall be unlawful 
to sell any of the poisons which are named in the first part of Schedule A. to 
this Act annexed, or which may hereafter be added thereto under section 1 of 
this Act, to any person unknown to the seller unless such person is intro¬ 
duced by some person known to the seller ; and on every sale of any such 
article the seller shall, before delivery, make or cause to be made an entry in a 
book to be kept for that purpose, stating, in the form set forth in the schedule 
B. to this Act annexed, the date of the sale, the name and address of the pur¬ 
chaser, the name and quantity of the article sold, and the purpose for which it 
is stated by the purchaser to be required, to which entry the signature of the 
purchaser and of the person (if any) who introduced him shall be affixed ; and 
any person selling poison otherwise than is herein provided shall be liable to a 
penalty not exceeding Jive pounds for the first offence, and to a penalty not ex¬ 
ceeding ten pounds for the second or any subsequent offence ; and for the pur¬ 
poses of this section the person on whose behalf any sale is made by any 
apprentice or servant shall be deemed to be the seller ; but the provisions of 
this section which are solely applicable to poisons in the first part of the Schedule 
A. to this Act annexed, or which require that the name and address of the 
seller, shall not apply to articles to be exported from Ireland by wholesale 
dealers, nor to sales by wholesale to retail dealers in the ordinary course of 
wholesale dealing, nor shall any of the provisions of this section apply to any 
medicine supplied by a duly qualified apothecary, nor apply to any article 
when forming part of the ingredients of any medicine dispensed by a duly 
qualified apothecary, provided such medicine be labelled in the manner aforesaid 
with the name and address of the seller, and the ingredients thereof be entered 
with the name of the person to whom it is sold or delivered in a book to be 
kept by the seller for that purpose; and nothing in this Act contained shall 
repeal or affect any of the provisions of the Act of the fourteenth and fifteenth 
years of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled “ An Act to regulate the 
sale of Arsenic.” 
3. The provisions of the Act of the twenty-third aud twenty-fourth years of 
the reign of her present Majesty, intituled u An Act for preventing the Adul¬ 
teration of Articles of Food or Drink,” shall extend to all articles usually taken 
or sold as medicines, and every adulteration of any such article shall be deemed 
an admixture injurious to health. 
4. Every penalty recoverable under the provisions of this Act shall be reco¬ 
verable in a summary way, with respect to the police district of Dublin metro¬ 
polis, subject and according to the provisions of any Act regulating the powers 
and duties of justices of the peace for such district, or of the police of such dis- 
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