S.I. No. 51/1983 - Poisons (Amendment) Regulations, 1983.

S.I. No. 51 of 1983.

POISONS (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1983.

The Minister for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 14 of the Poisons Act, 1961 (No. 12 of 1961), as amended by section 33 of the Misuse of Drugs Act, 1977 (No. 12 of 1977), after consultation with Comhairle na Nimheanna, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Poisons (Amendment) Regulations, 1983.

(2) These Regulations shall be construed as one with the Principal Regulations and may be cited together with those Regulations as the Poisons Regulations, 1982 and 1983.

2. In these Regulations—

"the Principal Regulations" means the Poisons Regulations, 1982 ( S.I. No. 188 of 1982 ).

3. (1) Notwithstanding article 2 of the Principal regulations, the provisions specified in sub-article (2) of this article shall not come into operation until the 1st day of January, 1985, as respects any poison set out in the first column of the Schedule, in relation to any preparation specified opposite the description of the poison in that Schedule.

(2) The provisions referred to in sub-article (1) of this article are:— paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of article 7 (1), article 7 (2), (3) and (4), paragraph (a) of article 7 (6), articles 7 (7), 7 (8), 10 (1), 11, 12 (1) and 13.

4. (1) The Principal Regulations are hereby amended—

( a ) by the insertion of the following sub-article after article 8 (8)—

"(9) The provisions of this article shall not apply as respects the sale of any poison in the dispensing of a prescription issued by a registered medical practitioner or registered dentist."

( b ) (i) by the deletion of the word "Novobiocin" from the item beginning with the words "Antibiotic substances" in Part I of the First Schedule, and

(ii) by the insertion of the word "Novobiocin" after the word "Neomycins" in the item beginning with the words "Antibiotic substances" in Part II of the First Schedule.

( c ) by the insertion of the word "Novobiocin" after the word "Neomycins" in Part III of the Fourth Schedule.

Article 3.

SCHEDULE.

Poison	Form
Aldicarb	Preparations for use in agriculture, horticulture or forestry
Alpha-chloralose	Preparations for the destruction of rats or mice
Aluminium phosphide	Preparations for the destruction of rats or mice or of rabbits, or for use in the storage of food or animal feeding stuffs
Barium carbonate	Preparations for the destruction of rats or mice
Bromomethane	Preparations for use in agriculture, horticulture or the storage of food or animal feeding stuffs
Carbofuran	Preparations for use in agriculture, horticulture or forestry
Chloropicrin	Preparations for use in agriculture or horticulture
Cycloheximide	Preparations for use in forestry
Dinitrocresols (DNOC); their compounds with a metal or a base	Preparations for use in agriculture, horticulture or forestry
Dinoseb; its compounds with a metal or a base	Preparations for use in agriculture, horticulture or forestry
Drazoxolon; its salts	Preparations for use in agriculture, horticulture or forestry
Endosulfan	Preparations for use in agriculture, horticulture or forestry
Endothal; its salts	Preparations for use in agriculture, horticulture or forestry
Endrin	Preparations for use in agriculture, horticulture or forestry
Fenaminosulf	Preparations for use in agriculture, horticulture or forestry
Fenazaflor	Preparations for use in agriculture, horticulture or forestry
Fentin, compounds of.	Preparations for use in agriculture or horticulture
Fluoroacetamide	Preparations for the destruction of rats or mice
Formaldehyde	Preparations for use in agriculture, horticulture or forestry
Formic acid	Preparations for use in agriculture, horticulture or the storage of food or animal feeding stuffs
Hydrofluoric acid; alkali metal bifluorides; ammonium bifluoride; alkali metal fluorides	Preparations for use as wood preservatives
Mercury, organic compounds of	Preparations for use in agriculture, horticulture or forestry
Methomyl	Preparations for use in agriculture, horticulture or forestry
Nicotine; its salts	Preparations for use in agriculture, horticulture or forestry
Oxamyl	Preparations for use in agriculture, horticulture or forestry
Phenols; compounds of phenols with a metal	Preparations for use in agriculture or horticulture
Phosphoric acid	Preparations for use in agriculture or horticulture
Phosphorus compounds, the following:—	Preparations for use in agriculture, horticulture or forestry
Asinphos-methyl
Chlorfenvinphos
Demephion
Demeton-S-methyl
Demeton-S-methyl sulphone
Dichlorvos
Dioxathion
Disulfoton
Fonofos
Mecarbam
Mephosfolan
Methidathion
Mevinphos
Omethoate
Oxydemeton-methyl
Parathion
Phenkapton
Phorate
Phosphamidon
Pirimiphos-ethyl
Sulfotep
Thiometon
Thionazin
Triazophos
Vamidothion
Sodium fluoroacetate	Preparations for the destruction of rats or mice
Squill, glycosides of	Preparations for the destruction of rats or mice
Warfarin; its salts	Preparations for the destruction of rats or mice
Zinc phosphide	Preparations for the destruction of rats or mice

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Health this 28th

day of February, 1983.

BARRY DESMOND.

Minister for Health.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The purpose of the Regulations is to amend the Principal Regulations in order to defer the implementation of the provisions of those Regulations for those poisons listed in the Schedule until 1st January 1985.

These Regulations also amend the Principal Regulations in two other minor respects.