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LAWS OF BRUNEI

CHAPTER 114 POISONS ACT

13 of 1956 Amended by S 103/58 S 99/59 S 101/79 LAWS OF BRUNEI

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CHAPTER 114 POISONS

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Sections

1. Short title. 2. Interpretation. 3. Description of poisons. 4. Licensing Officers. 5. General prohibition with respect to the importation and sale of poisons. 6. Prohibitions and provisions relating to the sale of poisons. 7. Exemptions in respect of medicines. 8. Exemptions in respect of sale. 9. Possession of poisons. 10. Issue of licences. 11. Different kinds of licence. 12. Licences to be numbered and registered. 13. Annual list to be published.

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14. Forms of licence. 15. Search and search warrant. 16. Powers of exemption. 17. Penalties. 18. Jurisdiction. 19. Prosecutions. 20. Prohibition of sale to persons under 18. 21. Rules.

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POISONS ACT

An Act to regulate the importation, possession, manufacture, compounding, storage, transport and sale of poisons

Commencement: 1st July 1957 [S 61/57]

1. This Act may be cited as the Poisons Act. Short title.

2. In this Act, and in any rules made thereunder, unless the Interpretation. context otherwise requires —

“dentist” means a dentist licensed under the Medical Cap. 112. Practitioners and Dentists Act and includes a Government dentist;

“export”, with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, in relation to Brunei Darussalam, means to take or cause to be taken out of Brunei Darussalam by land, air or water, otherwise than in transit;

“import”, with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, in relation to Brunei Darussalam, means to bring or to cause to be brought into Brunei Darussalam by land, air or water, otherwise than in transit;

“in transit” means taken or sent from any country and brought into Brunei Darussalam by land, air or water (whether or not landed or transhipped in Brunei Darussalam) for the sole purpose of being carried to another country either by the same or another conveyance;

“licensed pharmacist” means a pharmacist licensed under this Act;

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“licensed practitioner” means a Government Medical Officer or a registered medical practitioner licensed under this Act;

“Licensing Officer” means a person empowered by section 4 to issue licences for the purposes of this Act;

Cap. 112. “pharmacist” means any person who holds any degree, diploma or licence approved by the Medical Board constituted under subsection (1) of section 9 of the Medical Practitioners and Dentists Registration Act;

“Poisons List” means the Poisons Lists in the Schedule;

Cap. 112. “registered medical practitioner” means a medical practitioner registered under the Medical Practitioners and Dentists Registration Act;

“sale by way of wholesale dealing” means sale to a person who buys for the purpose of selling again;

Cap. 112. “veterinary surgeon” means a person who holds the diploma of membership of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons of England, or the diploma of a British or foreign veterinary institution or examining body approved by the Medical Board constituted under subsection (1) of section 9 of the Medical Practitioners and Dentists Registration Act.

Description of 3. (1) The substances specified in the Poisons List shall be poisons. deemed to be poisons within the meaning of this Act.

(2) His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan in Council may, by notification in the Gazette, add to, remove from, or reinstate in the Poisons List any substance.

Licensing 4. His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan may Officers. appoint any person to be a Licensing Officer, and any person so LAWS OF BRUNEI

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5. No person shall without a licence from a Licensing General Officer import, possess for sale, sell or offer for sale any poison. prohibition with respect to the importation and sale of poisons.

6. (1) It shall not be lawful — Prohibitions and provisions relating to the (a) for any person to sell any poison unless — sale of poisons. (i) he is licensed under this Act to sell poisons;

(ii) the sale is effected in accordance with the provisions of the licence and with any conditions specified therein;

(iii) the sale is effected on the premises specified in the licence;

(iv) the sale is effected by or under the personal supervision of the person named in the licence;

(v) where the poison is one included in Part I of the Poisons List, the sale is effected by or under the personal supervision of a licensed pharmacist or licensed practitioner,

(b) for any person to sell any poison by wholesale except to a person licensed under this Act to sell that poison.

(2) It shall not be lawful for a person to sell any poison unless the container of the poison is labelled —

(a) with the name of the poison;

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(b) in the case of a preparation which contains a poison as one of the ingredients thereof, with particulars as to the proportion which the poison contained in the preparation bears to the total ingredients;

(c) with the word “Poison” or other prescribed indication of the character thereof;

(d) with the name of the seller of the poison and the address of the premises on which it was sold.

(3) Subject to any rules made under this Act dispensing with or relaxing any of the requirements of this subsection —

(a) it shall not be lawful to sell any poison to any person unless that person is known by the seller or by some person in the employment of the seller at the premises where the sale is effected, or is introduced by some person known to the seller as a person to whom the poison may properly be sold;

(b) the seller of any poison shall not deliver it until —

(i) he has made or caused to be made an entry in a book to be kept for that purpose stating the date of the sale, the name and address of the purchaser and of the person, if any, introducing him, the name and quantity of the substance sold and the purpose for which it is stated by the purchaser to be required;

(ii) the purchaser and the person introducing him, if any, have affixed their signatures to the entry aforesaid.

Exemptions in 7. (1) Nothing in section 6 shall apply — respect of medicines. (a) to a medicine which is supplied by a registered medical practitioner for the purposes of medical treatment of his own patients; LAWS OF BRUNEI

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(b) to a medicine which is supplied by a dentist for the purposes of dental treatment of his own patients;

(c) to a medicine which is supplied by a veterinary surgeon for the purposes of animal treatment;

(d) to a medicine which is dispensed by a licensed pharmacist on the premises specified in his licence;

(e) to a poison forming part of the ingredients of a medicine, except a patent or proprietary medicine, which is supplied by a licensed pharmacist on the premises specified in his licence, if the requirements contained in subsections (2) and (3) are satis- fied in relation thereto. (2) The medicine must be distinctly labelled with the name and address of the firm or person by whom it is supplied or dispensed and with a serial number or other reference to the entry in the book required to be kept and used regularly under the provisions of subsection (3).

(3) On the day on which the medicine is supplied or dispensed there must be entered in a book which is kept and used regularly for the purpose of this provision but which need not be used exclusively for that purpose the following particulars —

(a) the date on which the medicine was supplied or dispensed;

(b) the ingredients of the medicine or, if the medicine is a proprietary medicine, the name of the medicine, and the quantity thereof supplied;

(c) if the medicine was dispensed by a licensed pharmacist, the name or initials and, if it is known, the address of the person by whom the prescription was signed, and the name and address of the person to whom, and the date on which the prescription was given;

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(d) if the medicine was not so dispensed, the name and address of the person to whom it was supplied:

Provided that the provisions of this subsection shall, in the case of a medicine supplied on a prescription on which such medicine had been supplied by the seller on a previous occasion, be deemed to be complied with if the date on which the medicine is supplied and the quantity thereof supplied are entered in the book or in a book kept for the purpose of this proviso on that day or, if that is not reasonably practicable, on the day next following that day, together with a sufficient reference to any entry in the book duly recording the dispensing of the medicine by the seller on the first occasion.

(4) In the case of a medicine which is supplied or dispensed by a licensed pharmacist or licensed practitioner the medicine must have been compounded by or under the direct and personal supervision of a licensed pharmacist or licensed practitioner.

Exemptions of 8. Except as provided in any rules made under this Act, respect of sale. nothing in the provisions of subparagraph (v) of paragraph (a) of subsection (1) and subsections (2) and (3) of section 6, shall extend to or affect —

(a) the sale of poisons by way of wholesale dealing;

(b) the sale of poisons to be exported from Brunei Darussalam Darussalam;

(c) the sale of poisons to be used by a registered medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon for the purposes of his profession;

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(e) the sale of poisons for use by or on behalf of a Government Department requiring the article for the purposes of the public service;

(f) the sale of poisons to a person or institution concerned with scientific education or research, if the article is required for the purpose of that education or research;

(g) the sale of poisons by persons licensed under this Act, either by way of wholesale dealing or for use by the purchasers thereof in their trade or business, to a person who requires the poison —

(i) for the purpose of his trade or business;

(ii) for the purpose of enabling him to comply with any requirements made by or in pursuance of any written law with respect to the medical treatment of persons employed by that person in any trade or business carried on by him.

9. (1) No person whether licensed under this Act or not Possession of shall knowingly keep or have in his possession or under his poisons. control any poison otherwise than —

(a) in an unbroken case or package as received from the manufacturer;

(b) in a bottle, vessel, box, package or other receptacle distinctly labelled with the name of the substance contained therein and also bearing some distinction or mark indicating that it contains poison.

(2) In any proceeding under this section if any person is proved to have kept or had in his possession or under his control any poison he shall be deemed to have done so knowingly unless the contrary is proved by him.

(3) No person shall keep any poison for sale or for dispensing purposes except —

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(a) as provided in paragraph (a) of subsection (1);

(b) in a bottle or other vessel tied over, capped, locked or otherwise safely secured in a manner different from that in which bottles or vessels containing non- poisonous substances are secured in the same warehouse, shop or dispensary;

(c) in a bottle or other vessel readily distinguishable by touch from the bottles or vessels in which non-poisonous substances are kept in the same warehouse, shop or dispensary;

(d) in a bottle, vessel, box or package kept in a room or cupboard under lock and key set apart for the keeping or storage of dangerous substances.

Issue of 10. (1) A Licensing Officer may issue to any person, licences. subject to such special conditions and limitations as the Licensing Officer may think fit, any of the licences referred to in section 11:

Provided that no licences shall be issued to a medical practitioner other than licences to import, possess, and sell poisons by retail in his own personal practice or business, or in a practice or business partnership of which every member is a medical practitioner. (2) A Licensing Officer, if it appears expedient to him to do so, may cancel any licence issued under subsection (1).

(3) Every licence shall, unless previously cancelled, remain in force until the 31st day of December in the year in respect of which the licence is issued.

(4) Such fees as may be prescribed shall be charged on the issue of each licence.

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11. (1) Licences may be — Different kinds of licence. (a) licences to import and store poisons;

(b) wholesale and retail licences to deal generally in poisons;

(c) wholesale licences to keep and sell by wholesale the poisons specified in such licences;

(d) retail licences to keep and sell the poisons specified in such licences.

(2) There shall be implied in every licence issued under this Act the condition that the licensee is bound to comply —

(a) with all the terms and conditions set out in the licence;

(b) with all the provisions of this Act;

(c) with all the provisions of any rule that may from time to time be made under this Act.

(3) For the purposes of this section the expression “to keep” shall include the custody of poisons by a licensee in the course of his employment.

(4) Every licence issued under this Act shall be personal to the licensee named therein and shall not in any case be transferable to another person and no licence shall authorise the sale of any poison by any person other than the person named therein:

Provided that is shall be lawful for a Licensing Officer, if he sees fit, to amend the description on a licence of the premises at which the person licensed carries on the business or profession in connection with which he is licensed.

12. (1) All licences issued in Brunei Darussalam shall be Licences to be numbered consecutively in the year in respect of which they are numbered and registered. issued, commencing each year with the number one.

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(2) Each Licensing Officer shall keep a register of Licenses issued by him showing all the particulars of each licence granted by him and the entries in the register shall be numbered to correspond with the serial numbers of the licences and there shall be noted in the register in the event of the cancellation of any licence the date of such cancellation.

(3) Any extract from or copy of an entry in a register kept under this section shall, until the contrary is proved be evidence of the facts stated therein if such extract or copy is certified under the hand of a Licensing Officer to be a true extract or copy.

Annual list to 13. (1) The Director of Medical Services shall in or about be published. the month of February in each year cause to be printed and published in the Gazette lists of all persons licensed under this Act with the nature of the licence or licences granted to each such person, and specifying the profession or business and the premises in respect of which such licences have been granted. Lists of all such licences issued after the publication of the annual list shall from time to time be published in the Gazette.

(2) In such lists the names shall be in alphabetical order, according to the surname or seh when such name or its equivalent is used by the licensed person, and otherwise according to the personal name of the licensed person followed by his father’s name.

(3) Every list so published as aforesaid shall be evidence that the persons therein named are licensed under this Act as therein stated and the absence of any name from such list shall be evidence until the contrary has been proved that such person is not licensed under this Act.

Forms of 14. Licences issued under this Act shall be substantially in licence. the forms prescribed with such variations as circumstances may require.

Search and 15. (1) A Licensing Officer or any officer of the Medical search Department authorised in writing by a Licensing Officer or any warrants. police officer not below the rank of inspector may enter at all reasonable times upon any premises in which poisons are LAWS OF BRUNEI

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(2) Any officer referred to in subsection (1) may in like manner inspect and take extracts from any book or record relating or reasonably believed to relate to any dealing in or with poisons wherever and by whomsoever kept and whether kept under the provisions of this Act or of any rules made under this Act or otherwise and for the purpose of such inspections or taking of extracts may enter at all reasonable times upon any place whatsoever.

(3) In any case in which it shall appear to any magistrate upon the oath of any person that there is reasonable cause to believe that in any premises there is concealed or deposited any substance in respect of which an offence has been committed against this Act, such magistrate may, by warrant addressed to any police officer not below the rank of inspector or to any senior officer of customs empower such officer to enter upon and search by day or night any premises within the jurisdiction of such magistrate and to take possession of any such substance and to arrest any person being in such premises in whose possession such substance may be found or who is reasonably suspected by such officer to have concealed or deposited such substance therein, and any officer to whom such warrant may be directed may in case of obstruction or resistance break open any outer or inner door of such premises and any cupboard, chest, trunk or package or other receptacle and by force, if necessary, enter upon any part of such premises and remove any obstruction to such entry, search or seizure and detain any person found in such premises until the search has been completed.

(4) In this section “senior officer of customs” has the same meaning as in the Customs Act. Cap. 36.

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Powers of 16. His Majesty in Council may by order published in the exemption. Gazette exempt from the operation of this Act or of any specific provision thereof or rule thereunder —

(a) any specified persons or class of persons;

(b) any chemical commonly used for any process in connection with a trade, manufacture or industry,

but every such exemption shall be subject to such instructions and conditions as His Highness in Council may think fit to impose either generally or in any particular case.

Penalties. 17. (1) Any person who acts in contravention of any of the provisions of this Act or of any rule or order made thereunder, shall except in so far as his act comes within one of the exemptions made by sections 7 and 8, be guilty of an offence: Penalty, a fine of $8,000 or, in default of payment, imprisonment for 6 months:

Provided that if the act or omission charged amounts, in the opinion of the court before which he is tried, to such a degree of negligence as to endanger or be likely to endanger, human life, then such person shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty, a fine of $16,000 and imprisonment for 12 months. (2) Any person who would have been guilty of an offence against the provisions of this Act or of any rule or order made thereunder if anything had been done or omitted by him personally shall be guilty of such offence and be liable to the same penalty if such thing had been done or omitted by his partner, agent or servant, unless he proves to the satisfaction of the court that he took all reasonable precautions to prevent the doing or omission of such thing; but so that nothing in this subsection shall affect the liability of such partner, agent or servant, and provided that the liability of such person shall not extend to imprisonment unless he is privy to the offence.

(3) Where any person convicted of an offence against the provisions of this Act or of any rule or order made thereunder is a body corporate every person who, at the time of commission of the offence, was a director, manager, secretary or LAWS OF BRUNEI

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(4) Any poison in respect of which an offence has been committed by any unlicensed person in contravention of any provision of this Act or of any rule or order made thereunder shall, upon that person being convicted of the said offence, be forfeited and shall be handed over to the Director of Medical Services for disposal.

(5) Every penalty or forfeiture imposed under this Act shall be in addition to and not in substitution for any other penalty to which the accused may be liable under any other law and no conviction under this Act shall be pleaded in any civil proceedings in mitigation of damages claimed against the person convicted.

18. The Court of a Magistrate shall have jurisdiction to hear Jurisdiction. and determine all prosecutions under this Act and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the Criminal Procedure Code, such a Court shall have power to Cap. 7. impose the full penalty or punishment provided by this Act.

19. (1) No prosecution for any offence under this Act or Prosecutions. any rule made thereunder shall be instituted except with the sanction of the Public Prosecutor or a Deputy Public Prosecutor.

(2) In any prosecution under this Act the burden of proving that any poison found in the possession of the accused was not kept for sale shall be upon the accused.

20. (1) No poison shall be sold to any person under 18 Prohibition of years of age. sale to persons under 18. (2) Any person contravening the provisions of this section shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty, a fine of $4,000 or imprisonment for 6 months.

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(3) It shall be a sufficient defence to any charge under subsection (1) that the person charged had reasonable cause to believe that the person to whom such sale was made was above the age of 18 years.

Rules. 21. His Majesty in Council may make rules to carry out the purposes of this Act and, in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing powers, may make rules with respect to any of the following matters or for any of the following purposes —

(a) the importation, use, and control of poisons, and any precautionary measures relating thereto;

(b) the manufacture of preparations containing poisons;

(c) the sale, whether by wholesale or retail, or the supply of poisons, by or to any person or class of persons, including —

(i) regulating or restricting the sale or supply of poisons by persons licensed under paragraph (c) or (d) of subsection (1) of section 11 and prohibiting the sale of any specified poison or class of poisons by any class of such persons;

(ii) prohibiting the sale by retail of poisons included in Part I of the Poisons List except on a prescription duly signed by a licensed practitioner, licensed dentist or licensed veterinary surgeon, and prescribing the form and regulating the use of prescriptions given for the purpose of rules made under this paragraph;

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rule made thereunder relating to the sale of poisons,

(d) the storage, transport and labelling of poisons;

(e) the containers in which poisons may be sold or supplied;

(f) the addition to poisons of specified ingredients for the purpose of rendering them readily distinguishable as poisons;

(g) the compounding and dispensing of poisons;

(h) the period for which any books required to be kept for the purposes of this Act are to be preserved;

(i) requiring persons in control of the manufacture of pharmaceutical preparations containing poisons to be licensed pharmacists or persons possessing prescribed qualification in chemistry;

(j) prescribing the coverings, stoppers and fastenings of and the marks to be placed or made on or on the coverings of or on the labels affixed to any vessel, bottle, case, package, box or other receptacle or container whatsoever in which any poison is kept, stored, sold or in any way dealt with;

(k) prescribing the form of licences, registers and returns;

(l) fixing fees and exempting any person or body of persons from the payment of such fees.

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SCHEDULE

POISONS LIST

(Sections 2 and 3)

In the construction of this list, unless the contrary intention appears —

1. A reference to a substance shall include a reference to that substance prepared either from natural sources or synthetically or artificially.

2. A reference to a substance shall include a reference to that substance when contained as such in any preparation, solution, admixture or natural sub- stance.

PART I

Acebutolol Acepromazine; its salts Acetanilide; alkyl acetanilides Acetazolamide; its salts Acetic anhydride Acetohexamide Acetorphine; its salts; its esters and others; their salts Acetylcarbromal Acetycholine chloride Acetylcysteine Acetyldigitoxin Acetydihydrocodeine; its salts Acetymethadol; its salts Adiphenine hydrochloride Alclofenac Alhyl flourides other than those specified in Part II of this list Alkaloids, the following; the quaternary compounds, any salt simple or complex, of any substance falling within the following — Aconite, alkaloids of Atrophine Belladonna, alkaloids of Brucine Calabar Beans, alkaloids of Cocaine Codeine, its esters and ethers Colchicum, alkaloids of Coniine Cotarnine , alkaloids of; curare bases Ecgonine, its esters and ethers Emetine Ephedra, alkaloids of Ergot, alkaloids of, hydrogenated or not; their homologues Gelsemium, alkaloids of LAWS OF BRUNEI

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Hyoscine Jaborandi, alkaloids of Lobelia, alkaloids of Morphine, its salts; its esters and ethers; their salts Papaverine Pomegranate, alkaloids of Quebracho, alkaloids of, other than the alkaloids of, Red Quebracho Rauwolfia, alkaloids of; their derivatives Sabadilla, alkaloids of Solanaceous alkaloids not otherwise included in this list Stavesacre, alkaloids of Strychnine, its salts and quaternary compounds Thebaine Veratrum, alkaloids of Yohimba, alkaloids of Allopurinol Allylisopropylacetylurea Allylprodine; its salts Alphacetylmethadol; its salts Alphachloralose Alphadolone; its salts Alphameprodine; its salts Alphamethadol; its salts Alphaprodine; its salts Alphaxalone Alprenolol; its salts ; its salts Ambenonium chloride Ambuside Ametaxole hydrochloride Amethocaine; its salts Amiloride hydrochloride Amidopyrine, its salts; amidopyrine sulphonates; their salts Amino-alcohols esterified with benzoic acid, phenylacetic acid, cinnamic acid, or the derivatives of these acids; their salts p-Aminobenzenesulphonamide; its salts; derivatives of p-aminobenzesulphonamide having any of the hydrogen atoms of the p-amino group or of the sulphonamide group substituted by another radical; their salts Aminocaproic acid Aminopterin Aminorex, its salts p-Aminosalicylic acid; its salts ; its salts Amyl Nitrite Androgenic, oestrogenic and progestational substances, the following — Benzoestrol Derivatives of stilbene, dibenzyl or naphthalene with oestrogenic activity; their esters Steriod compounds with androgenic or oestrogenic or progestational activity; their esters

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Anileridine; its salts Antibiotics, the following, their salts; their esters and salts of such esters — Actinomycins Amphomycin Amphotericin Bacitracin Bleomycin Cabimicina Candicidin Cephaloglycin Cephaloridine Cephalosporins, that is to say, the antimicrobial substances containing in their chemical structure a fused dihydrothiazine B-lactam nucleus Chloraphenicol Chlortetracycline Chromomycin A Clindamycin Colimycin Demethylchlortetracyline Dihydrostreptomycin Erthromycin Flavomycin Flucytosine Framycetin Fumagillin Fusidic acid Gentamycin Gramicidins Griseofulvin Hachimycin Kanamycin Kanendomycin Lincomycin, that is to say, the S-alkyl derivatives of 6, 8-dideoxy-6-trans (4-alkyl-L-2 pyrrolidine carboxamido) 1-thio-D-erytho-oc-D-galacto- actopyrano-side, and N-methylpyrrolidine analogues thereof Methacycline Minocycline Mithramycin Mitomycins Neomycin Natamycin Novobiocin Nystatin Oleandomycin Oxytetracycline Paromomycin Penicillin, its salts and its derivatives Polymyxins and their salts , that is to say, a group of related antimicrobial microlactans, either produced by the growth of streptomyces mediterranei or by modi- LAWS OF BRUNEI

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fication of such products, and containing the chemical structure of 11- acetoxy, 7, 9, 15-trihydroxy-13-methoxy-2 6, 8, 10, 12-pentamethyl pentadece-2, 4, 14-trienoic acid amide, attached by the nitrogen atom and by the oxygen atom In the 15 position respectively to the 7 and 2- positions of a 5, 6, 9-trioxygenated 2, 4-dimethyl-a-oxonaphtho (2, 1-b) furan; any salt or ester of a substance comprised in this entry and any salt of such ester. Ristocetins and their salts Spectinomycin and its salts, its esters and salts of such esters Spiramycin and its salts and its salts, its derivatives and salts of such derivatives Tetracyclines, that is to say, the antimicrobial substances containing the chemical structure naphthacene-2-carboxymide, hydrogenated to any extent and having each of the positions 1, 3, 10, 11, and 12 substituted by a hydroxyl or an oxo group, and their salts Thiamphenicol Tobramycin Trichomycin Tylosin Tyrothricin Ureamycin Vancomycin and its salts Viomycin and its salts Virginiamycin and its salts substances the following; their salts; their molecular com- pounds — Bromodiphenhydramine Chlorpheniramine Cinnarizi 3-D-n-butylaminomethyl-4, 5, 6-trihydroxyphthalide Dimethpyrindene Meclastine Meclozine

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Substances being tetra-N-substituted derivatives of or propylenediamine Antimony, chlorides of, antimonates, organic of compounds of antimony Apiol Apomorphine; its salts Aprotinin Arsenical substances, the following, except those specified in Part II of this list, halides of arsenic, oxides of arsenic, arsenates, arsenites, organic compounds of arsenic L-Asparaginase Atenolol ; its salts Azapropazone Baclofen Barbituric acid; its salts; derivatives of barbituric acid; their salts, com- pounds of barbituric acid, its salts, its derivatives, their salts, with any other substance Barium, salts of, other than barium sulphate and the salts of barium speci- fied in Part II of this list Beclamide Bemegride , its salts, its quaternary compounds Benapryzine; its salts Benserazide hydrochloride Benzbromarone Benzethidine; its salts Benzhexol Benzilonium bromide Benzoctamine; its salts Benzoylmorphine; its salts Benztropine and its homologues; their salts Benzylmorphine; its salts Betacetylmethadol; its salts ; its salts Betameprodine; its salts Betamethadol; its salts Betaprodine; its salts chloride Bethanidine; its salts Bezitramide; its salts ; its salts Bretylium; its salts Bromhexine hydrochloride Bromocriptine mesylate Bromvaletone Bufexamac Buformin; its salts Bufotenine; its salts; its esters and ethers; their salts Bumetanide Buphenine hydrochloride Bupivacaine; its salts Busulphan; its salts LAWS OF BRUNEI

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Butacaine sulphate hydrochloride Butylchloral hydrate Cannabinol and its tetrahydrol derivatives, prepared wholly or partly by synthesis; their 3-alkyl homologues; their esters or ethers; their salts Cannabis (the whole plant, or any part there of Cannabis sativa Linn); the resin of cannabis; extracts of cannabis; tintures of cannabis; cannabis tannate Cantharidin; cantharidates ; its salts ; its salts Carbamazepine Carbarsone Carbenoxolone; its salts Carbidopa Carbimazole Carbromal Carbutamide; its salts Carisoprodol Carperdine; its salts Chloral; its addition and condensation products other than alpha-chloral- ose; their molecular compounds Chlorambucil Chlordiazepoxide; its salts Chlormethiazole; its salts Chlormezanone; its salts Chloroform Chlorothiazide and other derivatives of benzo-1, 2, 4-thiadiazine-7-sulpho- namide 1, 1-dioxide, whether hydrogenated or not ; its salts Chlorphentermin; its salts Chlorproomide; its salts and other derivatives of 9-methylenethiaxanthen; their salts Chlorthalidone and other derivatives of o-chlorobenzene sulphonamide Chlorzoxazone ; its salts Clofibrate Clomiphene; its salts ; its salts Clonidine; its salts Clonitazene Clopamide Clorexolone Clorprenaline; its salts Clotrimazol Codoxime; its salts Corticotrophins, natural and synthetic Cortisone, , prednisone, prednisolone, derivatives of these with hydroxyl, alkyl groups or halogens as substituents; ethers and salts of esters of such derivatives

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Creosote obtained from wood Cropropamide Crotethamide Croton, oil of Curare 4-Cyano-2-dimethylamino-4, di-diphenylbutane; its salts 4-Cyano-1-methyl-4-phenylpiperidine; its salts Cyclarbamate Cyclofenil Cylopentolate hydrochloride Cyclophosphamide Cycrimine; its salts Cyproterone; its salts Cytarabine; its salts Dacarabazine ; its salts Danazol Dantrolene sodium Daunorubicin; its salts Deanol; its salts Debrisoquine; its salts Dehydroemetine; its salts Demecarium bromide Deprodone; its salts; its esters; their salts; any acetyl derivatives and its salts ; its salts Desferrioxamine; its salts ; its salts Desomorphine; its salts; its esters and ethers; their salts Dexitimide ; its salts Dextromoramide; its salts ; its salts Diacetylmorphine; its salts Diacetylnalorphine; its salts Diamino-diphenyl sulphones; their salts; their derivative Diampromide; its salts Diazepam and other compounds containing the chemical structure of di- hydro-1 4-benzodiazepine substituted to any degree; their salts Diazoxide; its salts Dicyclomine; its salts ; its salts N-Diethylaminoethyl ephedrine; its salts NN-Diethyltryptamine (DET) Difenoxin Digitalis, glycosides of; other active principles of digitalis Dihydrallazine; its salts Dihydrocodeine; its salts; its esters and ethers; their salts Dihydrocodeinone; its salts Diloxanide Furoate Dihydromorphine; its salts; its esters and ethers; their salts Dimenoxadole; its salts Dimepheptanol; its salts; its esters and ethers; their salts LAWS OF BRUNEI

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Dimepropion Dimercaprol Dimethothiazine mesylate 2, 5-Dimethoxy-oc, 4-dimethylphenenthylamine; its salts 3-(1, 2-Dimethylheptyl-1-hydroxy-7, 8, 9, 10-tetrahydro-6 6, 9 -trimethyl- 6H dibenzo (b,d) pyran (DMHP) Dimethylthiambutene; its salts N, N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT); its salts Dimethyltubocurarine; its salts Dimitrothymols Dinitronaphathols Dinitrophenols Dioxaphetyl butyrate; its salts Diperdone; its salts Diphenoxylate; its salts Dipipanone; its salts Disopyramide Distigmine; its salts Disulfiram Disulphamide Dithienylallylamines; dithienyalalkylallyamines; their salts Dopamine; its salts Dothiepin; its salts Doxapram; its salts ; its salts Doxorubicin; its salts Drotebanol Dyflos Ecothiopate iodine Ectylurea Edrophonium chloride Elaterin Emepronium chloride Embutramide Emylcamate Erythrityl tetranitrate Estramustine phosphate Etafedrine; its salts Ethacrynic acid; its salts ; its salts Ethamivan Ethamsylate Ethclorvynol Ethebenecid Ethinamate Ethoglucid Ethoheprazine; its salts Ethosuximide Ethylmethylthiamutene Ethylmorphine; its salts; its ester and ethers; their salts Etonitazene; its salts Etorphine; its salts; its esters and ethers; their salts

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Etoxeridine; its salts Fencamfamin; its salts Fenfluramine; its salts Fenoprofen; its salts Fenoterol Fentanyl; its salts ; its salts Flufenamic acid; its salts; its esters; their salts Fluoracetamide Fluoroacetanilide Fluorouracil; its salts Flupenthixol; its salts Fluprostenol; its salts Flurbiprofen Frusemide Furaltadone Furazolidone Furethidine Gallamine; its salts; its quarternary compounds Glibenclamide; its salts Glibornuride; its salts Glipzide Glutethimide; its salts Glymidine Guanethamide; its salts Guanidines, the following — polymethylene diguanidines di-p-anisyl-p-phenetyguanidine Guanoclor; its salts Guanoxan; its salts and other 4-substituted derivatives of N-(3-p-fluorobenzoyl- propyl) piperidine Heparin Hexachlorophene Heamethonium; its salts Hexapropymate 3-Hexyl-hydroxy-7, 8, 9, 10-tetrahydro-6, 6, 9-trimethyl 6H-dibenzo (b, d) pyran (parahexyl) Hydrallazine; its salts Hydrazines, benzyl, phenethyl and Phenoxyethyl their oc methyl de-riva- tives; acyl derivatives of any of the foregoing substances comprised in this item; salts of any compounds comprised in this item Hydrocodone; its salts Hydrocyanic acid; cyanides, other than ferrocyanides and ferricyanides Hydromorphinol; its salts; its esters and ethers; their salts Hydromorphone; its salts; its esters and ethers; their salts Hydroxycinchoninic acids, derivatives of; their salts; their esters Hydroxy-N, N-dimethyltryptamines; their esters or ethers, any salt of any substance falling within this item Hydroxypethidine; its salts; its esters and ethers; their salts Hydroxyurea LAWS OF BRUNEI

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Hydroxyzine; its salts Ibuprofen Idoxuridine Indomethacin; its salts Insulin ; its salts Iproniazid; its salts Isoaminile; its salts Isocarboxazid; its salts Isoetharine; its salts Isomethadone (isoamidone); its salts ; its salts Isomethadone (isoamidone); its salts Isoniazid; its salts; its derivatives; their salts Isoprenaline; its salts iodide ; its salts Ketobemidone; its salts; its esters and ethers; their salts Ketoprofen Khellin Labetolol hydrochloride Laetrile Laudexium; its salts Lead acetates; compounds of lead acids from fixed oils Levadop; its salts Levomethorphan; its salts Levomoramide; its salts Levophenacylmorphan; its salts; its esters and ethers; their salts Levorphanol; its salts; its esters and ethers; their salts Lignacaine; its salts Lithium carbonate; sulphate Loperamide; its salts Lysergamide Lysergide and other N-alkyl derivatives of lysergamide; their salts, their quaternary compounds Mannityl hexanitrate; dimesylate Mannoumustine; its salts ; its salts Mazindol Mebanazine; its salts Mebendazole hydrochloride Mebezonium iodide Mebutamate ; its salts ; its salts Mefenamic acid; its salts; its esters; their salts Mefruside Melphalan bromide Mepivacaine hydrochloride

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Mephenesin; its esters Meprobamate Mercaptopurine; its salts; derivatives of mercaptopurine; their salts Mercury, oxides of; nitrates of mercury; mercuric ammonium chlorides; potassiomercuric iodides; organic compounds of mercury which contain a methyl (CH 3) group directly linked with the mercury atom; mercuric oxycyanides; mercuric thiocyanate Mersalyl Metaraminol tartrate Metaxalone Metazocine; its salts; its esters and ethers; their salts Metformin; its salts (amidone); its salts Methadyl acetate; its salts Methanthelinium bromide Methaqualone; its salts hydrochloride Methimazole Methixene; its salts Methocarbamol Methotrexate Methoxamine hydrochloride Methoxsalen Methoxyphenamine; its salts Methsuximide Methylaminoheptane; its salts Methyldesorphine; its salts; its esters and ethers; their salts Methyldihydromorphine; its salts; its esters and ethers; their salts Methyldopa Methyldopate; its salts 2-Methyl-3-morpholino-1, 1-diphenyl-propane carboxylic acid; its salts; its esters; their salts Methylpentynol; its esters and other derivatives oc-Methylphenethylamine, B-methylphenthylamine and oc-ethylphenethylamine; any synthetic compound structurally derived from any of those substances by substi- tution in the aliphatic part or by ring closure therein (or by both such substitution and such closure) or by substitution and such aromatic ring (with or without substitution at the nitrogen atom), except ephedrine, its optical isomers and H-substituted derivatives, fenfluramine, hydroxyamphenamine, methoxyphenamine, phenylpropanolamine, pholedrine and prenylamine; any salt of substance falling within this item 1-Methyl-4-phenylpiperidine4-carboxylic acid, esters of; their salts Methylphenidate; its salts Methyprylone Metoclopramide; its salts Metolazone Metomidate hydrochloride Metopon; its salts; its esters and ethers; their salts Metoprolol tartrate Metyrapone Mexizetine hydrochloride Mianserine hydrochloride LAWS OF BRUNEI

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Mitobronitol Mitopodozide; its salts Molindone; its salts Monofluoracetic acid; its salts Morazone ; its salts Morpheridine; its salts Morphine methobromide; morphine N-oxide and other pentavalent nitro- gen morphine derivatives Mustine and any other N-substituted derivatives of di (2-chloroethyl) amine; their salts Myrophine; its salts Nafidrofuryl;its salts Nalidixic acid; its salts; its esters and salts of each esters Nalorphine; its salts Naloxone; its salts Naphazoline; its salts Naproxen Neostigmine; its salts Nialamide; its salts Nicocodine; its salts Nicodicodine; its salts Nicomorphine; its salts Nicoumalone Nifedipine Nifenazone Nikethamide Niridazole Nitrofurantoin Nitrofurazone Nitromin m-Nitrophenol; o-nitrophenol; p-nitrophenol Nitroprusside; its salts Noracymethadol; its salts Norcodine; its salts; its esters and ethers; their salts Norlevorphanol; its salts; its esters and ethers; their salts Normethadone; its salts Normorphine; its salts; its esters and ethers; their salts Norpipanone its salts Nux vomica ; its salts Opium Orciprenaline; its salts Orthocaine; its salts Ouabain Oxalic acid; metallic oxalates Oxamniquine Oxedrine Tartrate Oxethazine; its salts Oxolinic acid Oxprenolol; its salts hydrochloride

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Oxycinchoninic acid; its derivatives; their salts; their esters Oxycodone; its salts; its esters; their salts Oxymorphone; its salts; its esters and ether; their salts Oxypertin; its salts Oxyphenbutazone Oxytoxins, natural and synthetic Pancuronium; its salts Papaverine; its salts Paraldehyde Paramethadione Parathyroid gland Pargyline; its salts Pemoline; its salts ; its salts Penicillamine; its salts Pentazocine; its salts Penthinenate methobromide ; its salts Perhexiline; its salts ; its salts Phenacaine hydrochloride Phenacemide Phenadoxone; its salts Phenaglycodol Phenampromide Phenazocine; its salts; its esters and ethers; their salts Phenbutrazate Phenyclidine; its salts Phendimetrazine Phenelzine; its salts Phenethylamine and derivatives Phenetidylphenacetin Pheneturide Phenformin; its salts Phenindione Phenmetrazine; its salts Phenol and its homologues and preparations containing 60 per cent or more W/W phenol or its equivalent Phenomorphan; its salts; its esters and ethers; their salts Phenoperidine; its salts; its esters and ethers; their salts , derivatives of; their salts; except dimethoxanate; its salts, and promethazine, its salts and its molecular compounds Phenoxybenzamine hydrochloride Phenoxypropazine; its salts Phenprocoumin Phensuximide Phentermine; its salts Phenylbutazone; its salts 2-Phenylcinchoninic acid; 2-salicylcinchoninic; their esters 5-Phenylhydantion; its alkyl and aryl derivatives; their salts 4-Phenylpiperidine-4-carboxylic acid ethyl ester; its salts Phenylpropanolamine hydrochloride LAWS OF BRUNEI

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Pholcodine; its salts; its esters and ethers; their salts Phosphorus, yellow Physostigmine; its salts Picric acid Picrotoxin ; its salts and quaternary compounds Pimidodine; its salts Pimozide; its salts Pindolol Pipernzolate bromide hydrochloride Pipradol; its salts; its esters and ethers Piracetam Pititramide; its salts Pituitary gland, the active principles of ; its salts Podophyllum and podophyllum resin methylsulphate Polidexide; its salts Polymethylenebistrimethylammonium salts Poppy-straw and concentrate of poppy-straw Practolol Prazosin; its salts Prenylamine lactate Prilocaine hydrochloride Primidone Prindolol Probenecid Procainamide; its salts Procaine; its salts Procarbazine; its salts ; its salts ; its salts Procheptazine; its salts Prolintane hydrochloride ; its salts Promoxolan Pronethalol; its salts Propanidid Properidine; its salts Propiram Propoxyphene; its salts Propranolol, its salts Propylhexedrine; its salts Prostaglandins Protamine; its salts ; its salts ; its salts ; its salts Protirelin Psilocin Psilocybin

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Pyrazinamide; its salts Pyridostigmine bromide Quinethazone ; its salts Quinine; its salts Racemethorphan; its salts Racemoramide; its salts ; its salts; its esters and ethers; their salts Rafoxanide Rauwolfia, alkaloids of; their salts; derivative of rauwolfia alkaloids; their salts Razoxane Rimiteral; its salts Ritodrine hydrochloride Salbutamol; its salts Salmefamol Savin, oil of Selenium suphide Sodium cromoglycate Sodium fluoride Sodium valproate Solapsone Sotalol; its salts Spironolactone Strophanthus; glycosides of strophanthus Styramate Sulphinpyrazone Sulphonal; alkyl sulphonals Sulpriride Suprarenal gland medulla, the active principles of; their salts Suxamethonium; its salts Syrosingopine Tacrin hydrochloride Tamoxifen; its salts Terbutaline; its salts Terabenazine; its salts Thalidomide; its salts Thallium; its salts Thebacon; its salts Thiacetazone Thiambutene Thiambutozine ; its salts Thioguanine Thiopentane Thiotepa; its salts Thiothixene Thiouracil; its alkyl derivatives Thymoxamine hydrochloride Thryoid gland, the active principles of; their salts Tilidine Timolol; its salts ; its salts LAWS OF BRUNEI

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Tolazamide; its salts Tolbutamide; its salts Tranexamic acid Tranylcypromine; its salts Tretamine; its salts Triamterene Triaziquone Tribromethyl 2, 2, 2-Trichloroethyl alcohol, esters of; their salts Trimeperidine; its salts Trimetaphan; its salts Trimethoprim ; its salts Troxidone Tryptamine and derivatives Tybamate Urethane Urokinase Tasopressine, natural and synthetic Verapamil; its salts Viloxazine; its salts Vinblastine; its salts Vincristine; its salts Warfarin; its salts Yohimbine; its salts and quaternary compounds Zoxazolamine; its salts

PART II

Acetic Acid Aldicarb Aluminium phosphide Amitraz Ammonia Ammonium chlorate Ammonium perchlorate Arsenical substances, the following — Arsenic sulphides Arsenious oxide Calcium arsenites Copper acetoarsenite Copper arsenates Copper arsenites Lead arsenates Potassium arsenites Sodium arsenates Sodium arsenites Sodium thioarsenates Barium; salts of, the following — Barium carbonate Barium silicofluoride Benzene

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Benzidine Carbofuran Chlorinated hydrocarbons, the following — Aldrin Banzoximate Benzene Hexachloride (BHC) (HCH) Bromocyclen Camphechlor Captafol Captan Chlorbenside Chlorbicyclen Chlordane Chlordecone Chlordimeform Chlorfenethol Chlorfenson Chlorfensulphide Chlorobenzilate Chloromembuform Chloropropylate Diophane (DD T) PP’ DD T Dicofol Dieldrin Dienochlor Diflubenzuron Endosulfan Endrin Fenazaflor Fenson Fluorbenzide Folpet Gamma benzene hexachloride (Gamma-BHC) HEOD HHDN Heptachlor Isodrin Kelevan Methoxychlor (methoxy-DD T) (1, 1, 1-trichloro-2, 2-di-(p-methoxyphe- nyl) ethane) Quintozene TDE (Tetachlordiphenylethane) Tetradifon Tetrasul Toxaphene Allied chlorinated hydrocarbon compounds used as pesticides (insecti- cides, acaricides, etc.) Chlorinate phenols; their salts Chloropicrin Chlormequat Cyclohexamide LAWS OF BRUNEI

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Cyhexatin Decarbafuran Diamines, the following; their salts Phenylene diamines Tolylene diamines other alkylated benzene diamines Dimethrin Dimetilan Dinitrocresols (DNOG); their compounds with a metal or base Dinosam; its compounds with a metal or a base Dinoseb; its compounds with a metal or a base Dioxacarb Diphenyl Diquat; its salts Drazoxolon; its salts Endothal; its salts Ethoxiquin Formaldehyde Formetanate Formic acid Fluenetil Hydrochloric Acid Hydrofluoric acid; alkali metal bifluorides; ammonium bifuloride; potas- sium fluoride; potassium silicofluoride; silicofluoric acid; sodium sili- cofluoride; Lead tetra-ethyl and similar lead containing compounds Malonoben Mercuric chloride; mercuric iodide; organic compounds of mercury except compounds which contain a methyl (CH 3) group directly linked to the mercury atom Metallic oxalates Metanil yellow (sodium salt of metanilylazodiphenylamine) Methomyl Methyl bromide Niclofolan Nicotine; its salts Nitric acid Nitrobenzene Nitrobenzol Orange II (sodium salts of p-(2-hydrosy-1-naphthylazo) benzene sulphonic acid Organo-tin compounds, the following — compounds of fentin Paraquat; salts of Phenols as defined in Part I of this list in substances containing less than 60 per cent, w/w, of phenols, compounds of phenol with a metal in sub- stances containing less than 60 per cent, w/w, of phenols Phosphoric acid Phosphorous compounds, the following ó Any substance derived from the molecule H3 PO4 by substitution of any of the hydrogen or oxygen atoms and used as pesticides (insecticides, acar- icides, etc.) excepting — bromophos

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bromophos-ethyl 2-chloro-1-(2, 4, 5-trichlorophenyl) vinyldimethyl phosphate diazinon dimethoate dipterex Penchlorphos fenitrothion fenthion malathion 0, 0, 0’ 0’ -tetramethyl 0, 0’ -thiodi-p-phenylene phosphorothioate pirimi- phos-methyl Potassium chlorate Potassium hydroxide Potassium perchlorate Sodium 4-(dimethylamino) benzene-diazosulphonate Sodium chlorate Sodium hydroxide Sodium nitrite Sodium perchlorate Sulphuric acid Zinc phoshide