S.I. No. 88/1944 - Dangerous Drugs (Medicinal Opium, Tincture of Indian Hemp, Morphine, Cocaine, Etc.) (Amendment) Regulations, 1944.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1944. No. 88.

DANGEROUS DRUGS (MEDICINAL OPIUM, TINCTURE OF INDIAN HEMP, MORPHINE, COCAINE, ETC.) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1944.

I, GERALD BOLAND, Minister for Justice, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by subsection (I) of section 20 of the Dangerous Drugs Act, 1934 (No. I of 1934), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, do hereby order and make the following regulations :—

1 Short title.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Dangerous Drugs (Medicinal Opium, Tincture of Indian Hemp, Morphine, Cocaine, Etc.) (Amendment) Regulations, 1944.

2 Interpretation.

2. The Interpretation Act. 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to these Regulations.

3 Amendment of Regulation 16 of the Dangerous Drugs (Medicinal Opium, Tincture of Indian Hemp, Morphine, Cocaine, etc.) Regulations, 1937.

3. Regulation 16 of the Dangerous Drugs (Medicinal Opium, Tincture of Indian Hemp, Morphine, Cocaine, Etc.) Regulations, 1937 ( S. R. & O. No. 65 of 1937 ), is hereby amended by the deletion of paragraph (2) and the insertion of the following paragraphs :

"(2) A qualified assistant pharmaceutical chemist, who is an assistant to a pharmaceutical chemist lawfully keeping open shop for the sale of poisons, is hereby authorised, during the temporary absence of such pharmaceutical chemist, to carry on, subject to the provisions of these Regulations, at such shop the business of supplying, retailing, dispensing or compounding drugs or preparations.

(3) Every drug or preparation in the actual custody of any person authorised by virtue of paragraph (I) of this Regulations shall ordinarily be kept in a locked receptacle which can be opened only by—

(a) such person, or

(b) an assistant (being a pharmaceutical chemist, chemist and druggist or registered druggist) to such person; or

(c) during the temporary absence of such person, an assistant (being a qualified assistant pharmaceutical chemist) to such person.)

(4) Every body corporate, keeping open shop for the sale of poisons, which for the time being complies with the requirements of section 17 of the Act of 1890, is hereby authorised—

(a) to manufacture at that shop in the ordinary course of its retail business—

(i) any extract or tincture of Indian Hemp, and

(ii) any preparation,

(b) to carry on, subject to the provisions of these Regulations, at that shop the business of supplying, retailing, dispensing, or compounding drugs or preparations.

(5) Every drug or preparation in the possession of a body corporate authorised by virtue of paragraph (4) of this Regulation in respect of a particular shop shall ordinarily be kept in a locked receptacle which can be opened only by—

(a) a person (being a pharmaceutical chemist, chemist and druggist or registered druggist) managing or conducting such shop, or

(b) an assistant (being a pharmaceutical chemist, chemist and druggist or registered druggist) to such person, or

(c) during the temporary absence of such person, an assistant (being a qualified assistant pharmaceutical chemist) to such person.

(6) In this Regulation—

the expression " the Actof 1890 " means the Pharmacy Act (Ireland), 1875, Amendment Act, 1890 ;

the expression " qualified assistant pharmaceutical chemist " means a person who is, by virtue of section 19 of the Act of 1890, competent to transact the business of a licentiate of the Pharmaceutical Society in the temporary absence of such licentiate."

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 25th day of March, 1944.

(Signed) GERALD BOLAND,

Minister for Justice.