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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[March 16,1872. 
6. Any person who washes to sell or keep open shop 
for retailing, dispensing or compounding poisons in any 
province or other division of the colony for wffiich a 
registrar has been appointed under this Act, may be 
registered under this Act without fee or reward on 
application to the registrar personally or by registered 
letter. 
7. The register to be kept under this Act for each 
province or other division shall be in accordance with 
the form set forth in the second schedule to this Act, 
and such register shall be called “The Register of 
Vendors of Poisons for the province of- {naming it) 
[or for the-of- (naming »£)].” 
8. It shall be the duty of the registrar of each province 
or division to make and keep a correct register in ac¬ 
cordance with the provisions of this Act of all persons 
required to be registered under this Act in the register 
for such province or other division on application with¬ 
out fee or reward, and to erase the names of all registered 
persons who shall have died or removed from the pro¬ 
vince or other division or ceased to carry on business, 
and from time to time to make the necessary alterations 
in the addresses of the persons registered under this 
Act. 
To enable the registrar duly to fulfil the duties im¬ 
posed upon him, it shall be lawfful for the registrar to 
write a letter to any registered person, addressed to him 
according to his address on the register, to inquire 
wffietffier ho has ceased to carry on business or has 
changed his residence; such letter to be forwarded by 
post as a registered letter, according to the Post-Office 
regulations for the time being; and if no answer shall 
be returned to such letter within the period of six 
months from the sending of the letter, a second of similar 
purport shall be sent in like manner, and if no answer 
be given thereto within three months from the date 
thereof, it shall be lawful to erase the name of such 
person from the register. Provided always that the 
same may be restored by the registrar. 
9. Every registrar of deaths in New Zealand, on re¬ 
ceiving notice of the death of any person registered 
under this Act, shall forthwith transmit by post to the 
registrar under this Act for the province or other division 
in wffiich such death took place, a certificate under his 
own hand of such death with the particulars of the time 
and place of death; and on the receipt of such certificate, 
the said registrar under this Act shall erase the name o 
such deceased person from the register, if such deceased 
person shall be registered in his register; if not, he shall 
send the certificate to the registrar in whose register 
such deceased person is registered, and on the receipt 
thereof the last-named registrar shall erase the name of 
the deceased person from the register. 
10. The registrar for each province or other division 
shall, in the month of January in every year, cause to 
be printed, published and authorized to be sold, a correc 
register of all persons registered in his register, and in 
such register the names shall be in alphabetical order 
according to the surnames, with the respective resi¬ 
dences, in the form set forth in the second schedule to 
this Act, or to the like effect, of all persons appearing 
on the register of vendors of poisons on the thirty-first 
day of December last preceding, and such printed regis¬ 
ters shall be called “ The Register of Vendors of Poisons 
for the Province of- (naming it) [or for the - 
-- of-• {naming *£)],” as the case may be; and 
a printed copy of any such register for the time be¬ 
ing purporting to be so printed and published as afore¬ 
said, or any certificate under the hand of the said 
registrar, shall be evidence in all courts and before all 
justices of the peace and others that the persons therein 
specified are registered according to the provisions of 
this Act; and the absence of the name of any person 
from such printed register shall be evidence until the 
contrary shall be made to appear that such person is not 
registered according to the provisions of this Act. 
11. From and after the thirty-first day of December, 
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, any per¬ 
son wffio shall sell or keep an open shop for the retailing, 
dispensing or compounding poisons, not being regis¬ 
tered under this Act, or shall fail to conform with any 
regulation as to the keeping or selling of poisons made 
ly the Governor in Council in pursuance of this Act, 
shall for every such offence be liable, on summary con¬ 
viction before any two or more justices of the peace, to- 
a penalty not exceeding five pounds. 
12. It shall be unlawful to sell any poison unless the 
box, bottle, vessel, wrapper or cover in wffiich such 
noison 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 poison of those 
which are specified in the first part of the first schedule 
:o this Act, or may hereafter be declared to be poisons 
within the meaning of this Act by order in Council 
under the third section of this Act, to any person un¬ 
known to the seller, unless introduced 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 ffmn set forth in the third sche¬ 
dule to this Act the date of the sale, the name and 
address of the purchaser, the name and quantity of the 
article sold, and the purpose for wffiich it is stated by 
the purchaser to be required, to wffiich entry the signa¬ 
ture of the purchaser, and of the person, if any, wffio 
introduced him, shall be affixed. 
And any person selling poison otherwise than is herein 
provided shall, upon a summary conviction before two- 
justices of the peace, be liable to a penalty not exceed¬ 
ing five pounds for the first offence, and to a penalty not 
exceeding ten pounds for the second, or any subsequent 
offence. 
And for the purposes of this section the person on 
whose behalf any sale is made by any apprentice or ser¬ 
vant shall be deemed to be the seller, but the provisions 
of this section, wffiich are solely applicable to poisons in 
the first part of the first schedule to this Act, or which 
require that the label shall contain the name and address 
of the seller, shall not apply to articles to be exported, 
from New Zealand 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 legally- 
qualified medical practitioner to his patient, nor apply to 
any article when forming part of the ingredients of any 
medicine dispensed by a person registered under this 
Act: 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 puz-pose, nor to the sale of 
arsenic by wholesale dealers in quantities not less than 
one hundredweight. 
13. Every person registered under this Act and every 
seller of poison, shall produce to any police-officer,, 
whenever requested to do so, the book required to be- 
kept as aforesaid, and, if requested so to do, a copy of 
any entries made therein. For any act or default con¬ 
trary to the provisions of this section done or made by 
any such registered person or any seller of poisons, he 
shall be liable to a penalty, on summary conviction, of 
not less than twenty shillings and not exceeding five 
pounds. 
14. No person shall sell any arsenic unless the same be 
before the sale thereof mixed with soot or indigo, in the 
proportion of one ounce of soot or half an ounce of indige 
at least to one pound of arsenic, and so in proportion for 
any greater or less quantity, on pain of forfeiture of a 
penalty not exceeding five pounds, to be recovered in a 
summary way : provided always that where such arsenic- 
is stated by the purchaser to be required for some pur- 
