Malaysia legislation
Section 7
Section 7
Application of the Act
(a)
to any exempted preparation; or
(b)
to any article or preparation specified in the Second Schedule.
(2)
The Minister may, from time to time, after consultation with the
Poisons Board by order notified in the Gazette, add to or remove from the Second Schedule any article or preparation.
(3)
Save in so far as is expressly provided by any regulation made under this Act, this Act shall not apply to the sale or supply of any poison or of any medicine containing poison by any officer or person, who—
(a)
is employed in any hospital, infirmary, dispensary or veterinary hospital wholly maintained by the Government of Malaysia or any State Government or by any local authority or out of public funds or by a charity approved by an order, whether general or special, of the Director
General of Health, and who sells or supplies in the course of his duty such poison or medicine to any out patient of such hospital, infirmary or dispensary for the medical or dental treatment of such patient or, in the case of an officer or person employed in a veterinary hospital, to any person for the animal treatment of any animal tended by him; or
(b)
is employed in any hospital, infirmary, dispensary, clinic, nursing home or other institution at which human or animal ailments are treated, and who sells or supplies in the course of his duty such poison or medicine for the use in the wards, operating theatres or other sections thereof:
Provided that such sale or supply is made and conducted in accordance with any regulations expressly applicable thereto made under this Act.
Poisons 17
Control of imports of poisons