1 Jersey R & O 5129 Pharmacy, Poisons and Medicines (Jersey) Law, 1952. ____________ POISONS (GENERAL PROVISIONS) (JERSEY) ORDER, 1968. ____________ ARRANGEMENT OF ARTICLES. 1. Interpretation. 2. Metric system and imperial system. Application and Relaxation of Part III of the Law. 3. Restriction of sales by shopkeepers. 4. Exemption of animal medicines. 5. Extension of labelling provisions and relaxation with respect to poisons in the Second Schedule and Part B of the Fourth Schedule. 6. Substances to which Article 16(2) of the Law applies. 7. Extension of Article 16(2) to sales wholesale etc., and relaxation of the said paragraph. 8. Relaxation of Article 17(3) in the case of certain medicines. 9. General exemption of Article 17 transactions. 10. Exemption from the provisions applying solely to the First Schedule. 11. Complete exemption for articles and substances in the Third Schedule. Additional Restrictions on the Sale of Poisons 12. Additional restriction of sale of poisons in the Fourth Schedule. 13. Additional restriction of sales by authorized sellers of poisons. 14. Restriction of sales by listed sellers of Part II poisons. 15. Requirement as to colouring in certain cases. 2 Jersey R & O 5129 Poisons (General Provisions) (Jersey) Order, 1968 16. Restriction of sales of Part I poisons to shopkeepers. 17. Restriction of sale and supply of strychnine and certain other substances. Supplementary Provisions with respect to Labelling and Containers 18. Manner of labelling containers. 19. Labelling of name of poison. 20. Labelling of particulars as to proportion of the poison. 21. Indication of character of the poison. 22. Special cautions in the case of certain articles. 23. Name of seller and address of premises. 24. Form of containers. Storage and Transport 25. Storage of poisons. 26. Transport of poisons. 27. Special provisions with respect to the transport of poisons specified in the Eighth Schedule. Special Provisions with respect to Hospitals 28. Supply of medicines to out-patients from certain hospitals etc. 29. Supply of medicines for use in hospitals etc. 29A. Supply of oral contraceptives. 30. Storage of poisons in institutions. Miscellaneous 31. Manufacture of pharmaceutical preparations. 32 Form of application for registration of sets of premises in register of premises and form of register. 33. Form of application for entry of name in list kept in pursuance of 3 Jersey R & O 5129 Poisons (General Provisions) (Jersey) Order, 1968 Article 19(1) of the Law and form of list. 34. Certificates of persons to whom poisons may be sold. 35. Form of record of sales. 36. Preservation of records. 37. Revocation. 38. Citation and commencement. SCHEDULES. FIRST SCHEDULE – Substances included in the Poisons List to which special restrictions apply unless exempted by Article 10. SECOND SCHEDULE – Poisons exempted from labelling provisions when sold or supplied in certain circumstances. THIRD SCHEDULE – Articles exempted from the provisions of the Law and of this Order. FOURTH SCHEDULE – Substances required to be sold by retail only upon a prescription given by a registered medical practitioner, registered dentist or registered veterinary surgeon. FIFTH SCHEDULE – Part A – Form to which the substances specified are restricted when sold by listed sellers of Part II poisons. Part B – Poisons which may be sold by listed sellers of Part II poisons only to persons engaged in the trade or business of agriculture or horticulture and for the purpose of that trade or business. SIXTH SCHEDULE – Statement of particulars permitted in certain cases as to proportion of poison. SEVENTH SCHEDULE – Indication of character of article prescribed for the purposes of Article 16(1) (c) (iii) of the Law. EIGHTH SCHEDULE – Poisons required to be specially labelled for transport. NINTH SCHEDULE – Form of application for registration of set(s) of premises in register of premises kept in pursuance of Article 13 of the Law. 4 Jersey R & O 5129 Poisons (General Provisions) (Jersey) Order, 1968 TENTH SCHEDULE – Form of register of premises. ELEVENTH SCHEDULE – Form of application for entry in the list kept in pursuance of Article 19(1) of the Law. TWELFTH SCHEDULE – Form of the list to be kept in pursuance of Article 19(1) of the Law. THIRTEENTH SCHEDULE – Certificate for the purchase of a poison. FOURTEENTH SCHEDULE – Form of entry to be made in the book to be kept by sellers of poisons in accordance with Article 16(2)(b) of the Law. FIFTEENTH SCHEDULE – Forms of authority for purchasing strychnine for killing moles. SIXTEENTH SCHEDULE – Substances in which poison is exempted by Article 6 from Article 16(2) of the Law. SEVENTEENTH SCHEDULE – Poisons required to be coloured in certain cases. EIGHTEENTH SCHEDULE – Forms of certificate authorizing the purchase of monofluoroacetic acid, a salt thereof, fluoroacetamide or fluoroctanilide as a rodenticide. NINETEENTH SCHEDULE – Enactments revoked. 5 Jersey R & O 5129 Poisons (General Provisions) (Jersey) Order, 1968 THE PUBLIC HEALTH COMMITTEE, in pursuance of Article 25 of the Pharmacy, Poisons and Medicines (Jersey) Law, 1952,1 as amended, hereby orders as follows: - ARTICLE 1 INTERPRETATION (1) In this Order 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 acetoarsenite, sodium thioarsenates and organic compounds of arsenic; “food” includes a beverage; “inspector” has the same meaning as in Article 28 of the Law;2 “the Law” means the Pharmacy, Poisons and Medicines (Jersey) Law, 1952;3 “listed seller of Part II poisons” means a person entitled, subject to the provisions of the Law and of this Order, to sell poisons included in Part II of the Poisons List by virtue of the entry of his name in the list kept in pursuance of Article 19(1) of the Law;4 1 Recueil des Lois, Volume, 1951–1953, page 355. 2 Recueil des Lois, Volume 1951–1953, page 359. 3 Recueils des Lois, Volume 1951–1953, page 321, Volume 1954–1956, pages 26 and 215, Volume 1957–1960, page 389 and Volume 1973–1974, page 411. 4 Recueil des Lois, Volume 1951–1953, page 346. 6 Jersey R & O 5129 Poisons (General Provisions) (Jersey) Order, 1968 “medicine for the internal treatment of human ailments” includes any medicine to be administered by hypodermic injection, but does not include any mouth wash, eye drops, eye lotion, ear drops, douche or similar articles; “sale exempted by Article 18 of the Law”5 means a sale made in such circumstances as to be entitled, except as provided by this Order, to exemption under Article 18 of the Law from the foregoing provisions of Part III of the Law;6 “transaction exempted by Article 17 of the Law”7 means the supply of a medicine in such circumstances as to be entitled to exemption under Article 17 of the Law from the provisions of Article 16 of the Law.8 (2) Any reference in the Schedules to this Order to the percentage of a poison contained in any substance or preparation shall, unless otherwise expressly provided, be construed in the following manner, that is to say, a reference to a substance or preparation containing one per cent. of any poison means – (a) in the case of a solid, that one gramme of the poison is contained in every hundred grammes of the substance or preparation; (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 hundred millilitres of the substance or preparation; and so in proportion for any greater or lesser percentage. 5 Recueil des Lois, Volume 1951–1953, page 345. 6 Recueils des Lois, Volume 1951–1953, page 340, Volume 1957–1960, page 390 and Volume 1973–1974, page 411. 7 Recueil des Lois, Volume 1951–1953, page 343. 8 Recueils des Lois, Volume 1951–1953, page 341 and Volume 1957–1960, page 390. 7 Jersey R & O 5129 Poisons (General Provisions) (Jersey) Order, 1968 (3) In this Order, any reference to an alkaloid shall include a reference to any salt of that alkaloid, and, in the case where the esters of an alkaloid are included in the Poisons List by virtue of the words “its esters”, to any esters of that alkaloid. (4) Any reference in this Order to a form set out in a Schedule to this Order shall include a reference to a form substantially to the like effect. (5) This Order shall be construed as one with the Law. (6) References in this Order to any enactment shall be construed as references to that enactment as amended by any subsequent enactment or to any other enactment repealing and re-enacting that enactment with or without further amendment. (7) This Order shall be construed as one with the Law. ARTICLE 2 METRIC SYSTEM AND IMPERIAL SYSTEM (1) For the purposes of this Order a poison shall not be regarded as sold, issued or supplied otherwise than in accordance with a prescription or other order by reason only that the prescription or order specifies a quantity of the poison in terms of the imperial system and the quantity sold, issued or supplied is the equivalent of that amount in the metric system, or by reason only that the prescription or order specifies a quantity of the poison in terms of the metric system and the quantity sold, issued or supplied is the equivalent of that amount in the imperial system. (2) For the purposes of this Order the quantity of a poison in the imperial system which is the equivalent of a particular quantity in the metric system, and the quantity of a poison in the metric system which is the equivalent of a similar quantity in the imperial system shall be deemed to be that set out as such in the Tables of Equivalents contained in the British Pharmacopoeia, the British Pharmaceutical Codex or the British Veterinary Codex.