S.I. No. 51/1983 - Poisons (Amendment) Regulations, 1983.

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Poisons (Amendment) Regulations, 1983.

(2) These Regulations shall be construed as one with the Principal Regulations and may be cited together with those Regulations as the Poisons Regulations, 1982 and 1983.

2. In these Regulations—

"the Principal Regulations" means the Poisons Regulations, 1982 (

S.I. No. 188 of 1982

).

3. (1) Notwithstanding article 2 of the Principal regulations, the provisions specified in sub-article (2) of this article shall not come into operation until the 1st day of January, 1985, as respects any poison set out in the first column of the Schedule, in relation to any preparation specified opposite the description of the poison in that Schedule.

(2) The provisions referred to in sub-article (1) of this article are:— paragraphs (

a

), (

b

) and (

c

) of article 7 (1), article 7 (2), (3) and (4), paragraph (

a

) of article 7 (6), articles 7 (7), 7 (8), 10 (1), 11, 12 (1) and 13.

4. (1) The Principal Regulations are hereby amended—

(

a

) by the insertion of the following sub-article after article 8 (8)—

"(9) The provisions of this article shall not apply as respects the sale of any poison in the dispensing of a prescription issued by a registered medical practitioner or registered dentist."

(

b

) (i) by the deletion of the word "Novobiocin" from the item beginning with the words "Antibiotic substances" in Part I of the First Schedule, and

(ii) by the insertion of the word "Novobiocin" after the word "Neomycins" in the item beginning with the words "Antibiotic substances" in Part II of the First Schedule.

(

c

) by the insertion of the word "Novobiocin" after the word "Neomycins" in Part III of the Fourth Schedule.

Article 3.

SCHEDULE.

Poison

Form

Aldicarb

Preparations for use in agriculture, horticulture or forestry

Alpha-chloralose

Preparations for the destruction of rats or mice

Aluminium phosphide

Preparations for the destruction of rats or mice or of rabbits, or for use in the storage of food or animal feeding stuffs

Barium carbonate

Preparations for the destruction of rats or mice

Bromomethane

Preparations for use in agriculture, horticulture or the storage of food or animal feeding stuffs

Carbofuran

Preparations for use in agriculture, horticulture or forestry

Chloropicrin

Preparations for use in agriculture or horticulture

Cycloheximide

Preparations for use in forestry

Dinitrocresols (DNOC); their compounds with a metal or a base

Preparations for use in agriculture, horticulture or forestry

Dinoseb; its compounds with a metal or a base

Preparations for use in agriculture, horticulture or forestry

Drazoxolon; its salts

Preparations for use in agriculture, horticulture or forestry

Endosulfan

Preparations for use in agriculture, horticulture or forestry

Endothal; its salts

Preparations for use in agriculture, horticulture or forestry

Endrin

Preparations for use in agriculture, horticulture or forestry

Fenaminosulf

Preparations for use in agriculture, horticulture or forestry

Fenazaflor

Preparations for use in agriculture, horticulture or forestry

Fentin, compounds of.

Preparations for use in agriculture or horticulture

Fluoroacetamide

Preparations for the destruction of rats or mice

Formaldehyde

Preparations for use in agriculture, horticulture or forestry

Formic acid

Preparations for use in agriculture, horticulture or the storage of food or animal feeding stuffs

Hydrofluoric acid; alkali metal bifluorides; ammonium bifluoride; alkali metal fluorides

Preparations for use as wood preservatives

Mercury, organic compounds of

Preparations for use in agriculture, horticulture or forestry

Methomyl

Preparations for use in agriculture, horticulture or forestry

Nicotine; its salts

Preparations for use in agriculture, horticulture or forestry

Oxamyl

Preparations for use in agriculture, horticulture or forestry

Phenols; compounds of phenols with a metal

Preparations for use in agriculture or horticulture

Phosphoric acid

Preparations for use in agriculture or horticulture

Phosphorus compounds, the following:—

Preparations for use in agriculture, horticulture or forestry

Asinphos-methyl

Chlorfenvinphos

Demephion

Demeton-S-methyl

Demeton-S-methyl sulphone

Dichlorvos

Dioxathion

Disulfoton

Fonofos

Mecarbam

Mephosfolan

Methidathion

Mevinphos

Omethoate

Oxydemeton-methyl

Parathion

Phenkapton

Phorate

Phosphamidon

Pirimiphos-ethyl

Sulfotep

Thiometon

Thionazin

Triazophos

Vamidothion

Sodium fluoroacetate

Preparations for the destruction of rats or mice

Squill, glycosides of

Preparations for the destruction of rats or mice

Warfarin; its salts

Preparations for the destruction of rats or mice

Zinc phosphide

Preparations for the destruction of rats or mice

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Health this 28th

day of February, 1983.

BARRY DESMOND.

Minister for Health.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The purpose of the Regulations is to amend the Principal Regulations in order to defer the implementation of the provisions of those Regulations for those poisons listed in the Schedule until 1st January 1985.

These Regulations also amend the Principal Regulations in two other minor respects.

S.I. No. 51 of 1983.

POISONS (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1983.

The Minister for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred by

section 14

of the

Poisons Act, 1961

(No. 12 of 1961), as amended by

section 33

of the

Misuse of Drugs Act, 1977

(No. 12 of 1977), after consultation with Comhairle na Nimheanna, hereby makes the following Regulations:—