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Poisons and Dangerous Substances Regulation 1953

Poisons and Dangerous Substances Act 1952
This reprint of this Statutory Instrument incorporates all amendments, if any, made before25 November 2006 and in force at  1 July 2001.

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Legislative Counsel
Dated 25 November 2006

INDEPENDENT STATE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA.

Chapter 231.

Poisons and Dangerous Substances Regulation 1953

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

Poisons and Dangerous Substances Regulation 1953

MADE under the Poisons and Dangerous Substances Act 1952.

Dated                   200 .

PART I. – POISONS AND DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES GENERALLY.

1. FORM OF POISONS LICENCE.

A poisons licence shall be in Form 1.

2. FEES FOR POISONS LICENCE.

The fee for–

(a) the issue of a poisons licence is K8.00; and

(b) a renewal of a licence is K5.00.

3. FORM OF POISONS REGISTER.

A Poisons Register shall be in Form 2.

4. STORAGE OF POISONS OR DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES.

(1) A person who sells a poison or dangerous substance must store it in a locked cupboard or room.

(2) Where a poison is required by the Act to be sold by a medical practitioner, a pharmacist or a licensee, the medical practitioner, pharmacist or holder of a poisons licence who sells the poison must retain the custody of the key of the locked cupboard or room required by Subsection (1).

(3) Where a dangerous substance may be sold by any person, the person who sells the dangerous substance or the manager in charge of the shop in which the dangerous substance is sold must retain the custody of the key of the locked cupboard or room referred to in Subsection (1).

Penalty: A fine not exceeding K40.00

5. PACKAGING OF CERTAIN POISONS.

(1) This section applies to the following poisons and dangerous substances:–

(a) arsenate of lead; and

(b) arsenic; and

(c) arsenical fly exterminator; and

(d) arsenical weed-killer; and

(e) carbolic acid; and

(f) cyanide of potassium; and

(g) lysol; and

(h) mercuric chloride; and

(i) strychnine.

(2) A person must not sell a poison or dangerous substance specified in Subsection (1) unless the package and container has printed on it conspicuously the name of an effective remedy or antidote (if there is one) to counteract the effect of the poison or dangerous substance.

Penalty: A fine not exceeding K40.00.

(3) This section does not apply to a poison or dangerous substance specified in Subsection (1) where it is supplied to–

(a) a medical practitioner for his own or his patients’ use; or

(b) a person by a pharmacist on the prescription or order of a medical practitioner.

6. SIGNATURE, ETC., OF PRESCRIPTIONS CONTAINING POISONS, ETC.

(1) For the purposes of the Act, a prescription containing a poison or dangerous substance that is issued by a medical practitioner must–

(a) be written in ink, and in terms and symbols such as are used in ordinary professional practice; and

(b) be signed by the medical practitioner in his own handwriting.

(2) A person who writes a prescription containing a poison or dangerous substance in secret code or cypher is guilty of an offence.

Penalty: A fine not exceeding K40.00.

7. PROHIBITION, ETC., OF CERTAIN POISONS.

The supply, manufacture and distribution of preparations comprising the poisons oxphenisatin acetate, diacetyldiphenolisatin and triacetyldiphenolisatin is prohibited.

PART II.^[1] – . . . . . . . .

SCHEDULE 1

PAPUA NEW GUINEA.

Poisons and Dangerous Substances Act 1952.

Form 1 – Poisons Licence.

Act, Sec. 5. Form 1.Reg., Sec. 1

PAPUA NEW GUINEA.

Poisons and Dangerous Substances Act 1952.

Form 2 – Poisons Register.

Act, Sec. 16. Form 2.Reg., Sec. 3.

Office of Legislative Counsel, PNG

1. ^[1]Part II Repealed by No. 65 of 1975.