S.I. No. 55/1951 - Poisons (Ireland) Act, 1870 (Additional Poisons) Order, 1951.

S.I. No. 55 of 1951.

POISONS (IRELAND) ACT, 1870 (ADDITIONAL POISONS) ORDER, 1951.

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 2nd day of February, 1951, the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland passed the following resolution :

That it is hereby declared that—

(a) all preparations and admixtures of strychnine not intended for the treatment of human ailments ought to be added to Part I of Schedule A of the Poisons (Ireland) Act, 1870 and

(b) all preparations or admixtures or other substances containing not more than 1·5 per cent. of codeine (calculated as pure drug) associated with any other medicinal substance ought to be added to Part II of the said Schedule of the said Act.

NOW, THEREFORE, the Government, in exercise of the powers, conferred on them by section 1 of the Poisons (Ireland) Act, 1870, and of every other power them in this behalf enabling, hereby orders as follows :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Poisons (Ireland) Act, 1870 (Additional Poisons) Order, 1951.

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.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Government, this second day of March, 1951.

JOHN A. COSTELLO,

Taoiseach.