The Poisons List Order 1982

Statutory Instruments

1982 No. 217

POISONS

The Poisons List Order 1982

Made

19th February 1982

Laid before Parliament

3rd March 1982

Coming into Operation

1st April 1982

In pursuance of section 2 of the Poisons Act 1972, and on the recommendation of the Poisons Board, I hereby make the following Order:—

1.  This Order may be cited as the Poisons List Order 1982 and shall come into operation on 1st April 1982.

2.  The Poisons List(1) shall be amended and varied so as to consist of the following substances only, that is to say:—

(a) as to Part I of the List (substances which, where they are non-medicinal poisons, and subject to the provisions of the Poisons Act 1972, are not to be sold except by a person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business), of the substances specified in Part I of the Schedule to this Order; and

(b) as to Part II of the List (substances which, where they are non-medicinal poisons, and subject to the provisions of the Poisons Act 1972, are not to be sold except by a person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business or by a person whose name is entered in a local authority's list), of the substances specified in Part II of that Schedule.

W.S.I. Whitelaw

One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State

Home Office

19th February 1982

SCHEDULE THE POISONS LIST

PART I

• Aluminium phosphide

• Arsenic; its compounds, other than those specified in Part II of this List

• Barium, salts of, other than barium sulphate and the salts of barium specified in Part II of this List

• Bromomethane

• Chloropicrin

• Fluoroacetic acid; its salts; fluoroacetamide

• Hydrogen cyanide; metal cyanides, other than ferrocyanides and ferricyanides

• Lead acetates; compounds of lead with acids from fixed oils

• Mercury, compounds of, the following:—

• nitrates of mercury; oxides of mercury; mercuric cyanide oxides; mercuric thiocyanate; ammonium mercuric chlorides; potassium mercuric iodides; organic compounds of mercury which contain a methyl (CH₃) group directly linked to the mercury atom

• Oxalic acid

• Phenols (any member of the series of phenols of which the first member is phenol and of which the molecular composition varies from member to member by one atom of carbon and two atoms of hydrogen) except in substances containing less than sixty per cent., weight in weight, of phenols; compounds of phenols with a metal, except in substances containing less than the equivalent of sixty per cent., weight in weight, of phenols

• Phosphorus, yellow

• Strychnine; its salts; its quaternary compounds

• Thallium, salts of

PART II

• Aldicarb

• Alpha-chloralose

• Ammonia

• Arsenic, compounds of, the following:—

• Calcium arsenites

• Copper acetoarsenite

• Copper arsenates

• Copper arsenites

• Lead arsenates

• Barium, salts of, the following:—

• Barium carbonate

• Barium silicofluoride

• Carbofuran

• Cycloheximide

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

• Dinoseb; its compounds with a metal or a base

• Dinoterb

• Drazoxolon; its salts

• Endosulfan

• Endothal; its salts

• Endrin

• Fentin, compounds of

• Formaldehyde

• Formic acid

• Hydrochloric acid

• Hydrofluoric acid; alkali metal bifluorides; ammonium bifluoride; alkali metal fluorides; ammonium fluoride; sodium silicofluoride

• Mercuric chloride; mercuric iodide; organic compounds of mercury except compounds which contain a methyl (CH₃) group directly linked to the mercury atom

• Metallic oxalates

• Methomyl

• Nicotine; its salts; its quaternary compounds

• Nitric acid

• Nitrobenzene

• Oxamyl

• Paraquat, salts of

• Phenols (as defined in Part I of this List) in substances containing less than sixty per cent., weight in weight, of phenols; compounds of phenols with a metal in substances containing less than the equivalent of sixty per cent., weight in weight, of phenols

• Phosphoric acid

• Phosphorus compounds, the following:—

• Azinphos-methyl, chlorfenvinphos, demephion, demeton-S-methyl, demeton-S-methyl sulphone, dialifos, dichlorvos, dioxathion, disulfoton, fonofos, mecarbam, mephosfolan, methidathion, mevinphos, omethoate, oxydemeton-methyl, parathion, phenkapton, phorate, phosphamidon, pirimiphos-ethyl, quinalphos, thiometon, thionazin, triazophos, vamidothion

• Potassium hydroxide

• Sodium hydroxide

• Sodium nitrite

• Sulphuric acid

• Thiofanox

• Zinc phosphide

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order amends the Poisons List, which has effect for the purposes of the Poisons Act 1972. The List as amended is set out in the Schedule to the Order.

The principal changes made by the Order are as follows. In Part I of the List, the entry for cyanides is restricted so as to read “Hydrogen cyanide; metal cyanides, other than ferrocyanides and ferricyanides”. In Part II of the List, there are added dinoterb and thiofanox, and two compounds of phosphorus (namely, dialifos and quinalphos). There are deleted from Part II of the List dinosam and those of its compounds specified in the List; fenaminosulf; fenazaflor; formetanate; and certain compounds of phosphorus.

(1)

See the Schedule to the Poisons List Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/2) and Article 2 of the Poisons List Order 1980 (S.I. 1980/126).