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PHARMACY AND POISONS
Part II of the Pharmacy and Poisons Act, 1933, and the Poison Rules, 1964
and 1965, made thereunder, make provision, inter alia, for the keeping of a register
by the Local Authority of persons who, not being entitled to sell poisons included
in Part I of the Poisons List, are, subject to the provisions of this Act, entitled to
sell poisons included in Part II of the Poisons List from premises in the area of
the authority.
The number on the register was 235 on the last day of the administrative year
for the purposes of the Act.
The Act makes it unlawful for a person to sell any poison, whether included
in Part I or Part II of the Poisons List, unless the container of the poison is labelled
in the prescribed manner:—
(i) with the name of the poison; and
(ii) in the case of a preparation which contains a poison as one of the ingredients
thereof with the prescribed particulars as to the proportion which the
poison contained in the preparation bears to the total ingredients; and
(iii) with the word “poison” or other prescribed indication of the character
of the article; and
(iv) with the name of the seller of the poison and the address of the premises
on which it was sold.
During the year 358 visits were made to premises of authorised sellers and no
contraventions of the relevant provisions were found.
FERTILISERS AND FEEDING STUFFS
The Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs Act, 1926, and the Fertilisers and Feeding
Stuffs Regulations, 1960 to 1964, make provision for the appointment of an Agricultural
Analyst and Inspectors by the Borough, and lay down standards for
declaration of compositional quality of fertilisers and feeding stuffs.
The Public Analyst is also the Agricultural Analyst and certain public health
inspectors are inspectors under the Act.
During the year 15 samples were submitted for analysis. Of these, 13 samples
were completely satisfactory, and in the remaining two cases — samples of imported
bonemeal — the standard analysis declared by the retailer did not correspond with
that supplied by the wholesaler on his invoice, resulting in adverse reports by the
analyst. Warning letters were sent to the retailers concerned.
CONSUMER PROTECTION
Under Section 1 of the Consumer Protection Act, 1961, regulations may be
made imposing safety requirements in respect of any prescribed class of goods or
component parts, and also to secure that such goods or parts are marked in the
prescribed manner. Section 2 of the Act prohibits the sale of goods not complying
with the regulations made under Section 1.
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