S.I. No. 28/1944 - Poisons (Ireland) Act, 1870 (Additional Poison) Order, 1944.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1944. No. 28.

POISONS (IRELAND) ACT, 1870 (ADDITIONAL POISON) ORDER, 1944.

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 3rd day of December, 1943, the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland passed the following resolution, that is to say :

" To recommend the Government that all the soluble salts of Barium should be added to Part II of Schedule A of the Sale of Poisons (Ireland) Act, 1870."

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 Poison) Order, 1944.

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 18th day of January, 1944.

ÉAMON DE VALÉRA,

Taoiseach