PHARMACOPOEIA ORDINANCE

PHARMACOPOEIA ORDINANCE

LAWS OF HONG KONG

PHARMACOPOEIA ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 308

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REVISED EDITION 1964

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CHAPTER 308.

PHARMACOPOEIA.

To make provision for the approval of the adoption in the Colony of a
pharmacopoeia and for the admission in evidence of copies
thereof.

[22nd August, 1958.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Pharmacopoeia Ordinance.

2. The Medical Council of Hong Kong as established by section 3
of the Medical Registration Ordinance, shall have the exclusive right of
approving the adoption in the Colony of a pharmacopoeia containing
descriptions of and standards for. and notes and other matter relating
to, medicines, preparations, materials and articles used in the practice of
medicine. surgery, or midwifery, and shall further have the exclusive
right of approving the adoption of any amendments thereto.

3. A pharmacopoeia approved under section 2 shall be deemed for
all purposes to be substituted in the Colony for all other
pharmacopoeias; and any enactment or custom relating to any of such
last-mentioned pharmacopoeias shall be deemed. after approval of a
pharmacopoeia under section 2. to refer to such pharmacopoeia and any
amendments thereto which have been approved.

4. Notice shall be published in the Gazette of any approval given
under section 2 and of any amendment thereto and a copy of the
pharmacopoeia or of any amendment thereto of which such notice of
approval has been given, being a copy purporting to be printed by such
printer as may be named in such notice, shall be received in evidence as
such pharmacopoeia or amendment. as the case may be.
Originally 28 of 1958. Short title. Right of approving a pharmacopoeia to vest in the Medical Council. (Cap. 161.) Substitution of approved pharmacopoeia for previous pharmacopoeias. Publication of notice of approval and admission in evidence of copies of approved pharmacopoeia.

Originally 28 of 1958. Short title. Right of approving a pharmacopoeia to vest in the Medical Council. (Cap. 161.) Substitution of approved pharmacopoeia for previous pharmacopoeias. Publication of notice of approval and admission in evidence of copies of approved pharmacopoeia.

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