Poisons Rules - Singapore Statutes Online

Poisons Act

(Chapter 234, Section 20(1))

Poisons Rules

R 1

G.N. No. S 94/1957

REVISED EDITION 1999

(1st January 1999)

[5th April 1957]

Citation

1. These Rules may be cited as the Poisons Rules.

Definitions

2.—(1) In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires —

“animal” includes poultry;

“antimonial poisons” means chlorides of antimony, oxides of antimony, sulphides of antimony, antimonates, antimonites and organic compounds of antimony;

“arsenical poisons” means halides of arsenic, oxides of arsenic, sulphides of arsenic, arsenates, arsenites, copper aceto- arsenites, sodium thioarsenates and organic compounds of arsenic;

“British Pharmacopoeia” and “Pharmaceutical Codex” include the supplements and addenda thereto;

“food” includes a beverage;

“licensed importer” means an importer licensed under the Act;

“licensed person” means a person licensed under the Act;

“mercurial poisons” means oxides of mercury, mercuric salts and organic compounds of mercury;

“registered nurse” means a nurse whose name is included in any part of the register of nurses maintained under the Nurses and Midwives Act (Cap. 209);

“sale by wholesale” means sale in any of the circumstances set out in section 8 of the Act.

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(2) In these Rules —

(a)	any reference to an alkaloid shall include a reference to any salt of that alkaloid and in a case where the esters of an alkaloid are included in the Poisons List by virtue of the words, “its esters”, to any ester of that alkaloid; and
(b)	any reference to medicines for the internal treatment of human ailments shall include any medicine to be administered by hypodermic injection but shall not include a reference to gargles, mouth-washes, eye-drops, eye-lotions, ear-drops, preparations for naso-pharyngeal use, and douches for rectal, vaginal or urethral use.

(3) Any reference in the Schedules to the percentage of a poison contained in any substance shall, unless otherwise expressly provided, be construed in the following manner, that is to say, a reference to a substance containing 1% of any poison means:

(a)	in the case of a solid, that one gramme of the poison is contained in every 100 grammes of the substance; and
(b)	in the case of a liquid, that one millilitre of the poison, or, if the poison itself is a solid, one gramme of the poison, is contained in every 100 millilitres of the substance,

and so in proportion for any greater or lesser percentage.

Licences

3.—(1) A licence to import, store and sell by wholesale poisons included in the Poisons List shall be in Form A of the Eighth Schedule.

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(2) A licence to import and deal generally in poisons by wholesale and retail shall be in Form C set out in the Eighth Schedule.

Form of record of sales

4. The particulars of sales of poisons which are required by section 6 (3) (b) of the Act to be entered in a book shall be entered in Form D set out in the Eighth Schedule.

Wholesale sales

5.—(2) A person so licensed shall keep a record of the arrival and sale of poisons in a book or other form of record kept solely for that purpose but shall not be required to comply with section 6 (3) (b) of the Act.

(3) The record shall be kept in Form E set out in the Eighth Schedule or otherwise recorded in such manner as to provide all the particulars required in that Form.

(4) A person so licensed shall obtain an order in writing in accordance with rule 10 in respect of the sale of any poison and shall enter a reference to such order in the record kept in pursuance of paragraph (2).

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