S.I. No. 97/1942 - Poisons (Ireland) Act, 1870 (Additional Poisons) Order, 1942.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1942. No. 97.

POISONS (IRELAND) ACT, 1870 (ADDITIONAL POISONS) ORDER, 1942.

WHEREAS it is enacted by section 1 of the Poisons (Ireland) Act, 1870, as adapted by subsequent enactments, that the several articles mentioned in the Schedule A to that Act shall be deemed to be poisons within the meaning of that Act, and that the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland 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 the said Act, and thereupon the said College shall submit such resolution for the approval of the Government :

AND WHEREAS on the fifth day of December, 1941, the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland passed the following resolution, that is to say: " That the President and Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, in exercise of powers vested in them, do recommend that the following be added to Schedule A, Part I., of the Sale of Poisons (Ireland) Act 1870 :

Para-aminobenzenesulphonamide; its salts.

Derivatives of para-aminobenzenesulphonamide having any hydrogen atoms of the para-amino group or of the sulphonamide group substituted by another radical; its salts." :

NOW, the government, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 1 of the Poisons (Ireland) Act, 1870, as adapted by subsequent enactments, and of every and any other power them in this behalf enabling, hereby order as follows :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Poisons (Ireland) Act, 1870 (Additional Poisons) Order, 1942.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to this Order.

3. The resolution of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland set out in the recitals to this Order is hereby approved of.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Government this 10th day of March, 1942.

(Signed) ÉAMON DE VALÉRA,

Taoiseach.