Bill 60 (Legislature 8, Session 6)

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Bill No. 60 of 1938. A BILL TO AMEND THE PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION ACT. NOTE.

Section 2 amends

section 29 of the Act so as to include alpha eucaine, beta eucaine, barbituric acid, their salts and derivatives, and similar substances, and provides restric tions for the sale of codeine and sulfanilimide and their salts.

Section 3 amends the poisons list by including with potas sium cyanide all other metallic cyanides. R. ANDREW SMITH, Legislative Counsel. (This note does not form any part of the Bill and is offered merely as a partial explanation of some of its p1"ovisions.)

BILL No. 60 of 1938.

An Act to amend The Pharmaceutical Association Act. (Assented to , 1938.) HIS MAJE.ST~, by. and with the advice and consent of the LegIslatIve Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Pharmaceutical Association Act Amendment Act, 1938." 2. The Pharmaceutical Association Act, being

chapter 203 of the Revised Statutes of Alberta, 1922, is hereby amended as to

section 29 thereof by striking out the same and by substituting therefor the following: "29.

No person shall sell, furnish or dispose of to any person who is not a duly qualified pharmaceutical chemist, a duly qualified medical practitioner, a duly qualified dentist or a duly qualified veterinary surgeon, or to any other per son except upon the written prescription of a duly qualified medical practitioner or a duly qualified dentist or a duly qualified veterinary surgeon, any of the following, namely: cocaine alkaloid and its salts; alpha eucaine and its salts; beta eucaine and its salts; barbituric acid, salts of barbituric acid, any derivative of barbituric acid and the salts thereof, and any derivative of any such derivative, and any substance whatsoever which contains any such acid, salts or deriva tives as aforesaid, howsoever described, whether as veronal, proponal, medinal, luminal, nembutal, or by any other name or description; any other drug, compound or preparation which may be used as a substitute for any of the foregoing substances or which will produce a similar effect to that pro duced by any of such substances; codeine and any salts thereof, sulfanilimide and any salts thereof except acid acetylsalicylic and its salts.

"29a. Notwithstanding anything contained in

section 29, a person who is a duly qualified pnarmaceutical chemist may sell, offer to sell, or furnish or dispose of capsules, tablets, pills, powders or wafers, each one of which whether a cap sule, talblet, pill, powder or wafer contains not more than one eighth of a grain of codeine, or a liquid intended to be taken as a medicine, which contains not more than one-eighth of a grain of codeine to each fluid dram, providing that any such capsule, tablet, pill, powder, wafer, liquid or prepara tioncontains an active medicinal drug or drugs, other thaI'.

2 codeine, in sufficient quantity to confer upon any such cap sule, tablet, pill, powder, wafer, liquid or preparation valu able medicinal qualities other than those possessed by codeine itself." 3. The said Act is further amended as to

Part I of the

Schedule by striking out the words "Potassium Cyanide" where the same occur therein and by substituting therefor the words "Potassium Cyanide and all other Metallic Cyanides". 4. This Act shall come into force on the first day of April, 1938.

No. 60. SIXTH SESSION EIGHTH LEGISLATURE 1 GEORGE VI 1938 BILL

An Act to amend The Pharmaceutical Association Act. Recei ved and read the First time ....................................... . Second time ......................... " .......... . Third time ....................................... . MR. HAYES. EDMONTON: A Shnilk!l.: King'. ?tinter 1~38 Title: 1938 (8th, 6th) Bill 60,

An Act to amend The Pharmaceutical Association Act

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