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No. S 714

Poisons Act

(CHAPTER 234)

Poisons
(Amendment)
Rules 2012

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 20(1) of the Poisons Act, the Minister for Health hereby makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1. These Rules may be cited as the Poisons (Amendment) Rules 2012 and shall come into operation on 1st January 2013.

Amendment of rule 2

2. Rule 2(1) of the Poisons Rules (R 1) is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after the definitions of “ “British Pharmacopoeia” and “Pharmaceutical Codex” ”, the following definition:

“ “Chinese proprietary medicine” has the same meaning as in the Medicines (Traditional Medicines, Homoeopathic Medicines and other Substances) (Exemption) Order (Cap. 176, O 6);”; and

(b)

by inserting, immediately after the definition of “licensed person”, the following definition:

“ “medical device” means a medical device referred to in the First Schedule to the Health Products Act (Cap. 122D);”.

Amendment of Second Schedule

3. The Second Schedule to the Poisons Rules is amended —

(a)	by inserting, immediately after the word “matches;” in Group I, the words “medical devices;”;
(b)	by inserting, immediately after the words “treatment of human ailments” under the heading “Substance or article in which exempted” against the item “Berberine; its quarternary compounds; their salts” in Group II, the words “; Chinese proprietary medicines”; and
(c)	by deleting the item “Coptis Teeta” and its entry relating thereto in Group II.

[G.N. Nos. S 632/98; S 51/99; S 177/99; S 279/99; S 68/2000; S 238/2001; S 473/2002; S 189/2004; S 299/2005; S 688/2007; S 539/2008; S 304/2009]

Made this 27th day of December 2012.

TAN CHING YEE

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Health,
Singapore.

[HSA (HPRG) 401:04/01-000; AG/LLRD/SL/234/2011/1 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 20(2) of the Poisons Act).