Medicines Act 1968

9 In section 29, for the definition of "pharmacist" there shall be substituted the following:—

• “' person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business ' shall be construed in accordance with section 69 of the Medicines Act 1968 ;

• ' pharmacist ' has the meaning assigned to it in relation to Great Britain by section 132(1) of the Medicines Act 1968”,

after the definition of "registered dentist" there shall be inserted the words " 'registered pharmacy' has the meaning assigned to it by section 74 of the Medicines Act 1968 ; ' retail pharmacy business ' has the meaning assigned to it by section 132(1) of that Act, " and at the end of section 29 there shall be inserted the following subsection:—

“(2) In this Act ' non-medicinal poison' means a substance which is for the time being included in Part I or Part II of the Poisons List and is neither—

(a) a medicinal product as defined by section 130 of the Medicines Act 1968, nor

(b) a substance in relation to which, by virtue of an order under section 104 or section 105 of that Act for the time being in force (and whether, in the case of an order under section 104 of that Act, it is referred to in the order as a substance or as an article), the provisions of sections 51 to 54 and sections 69 to 77 of that Act (whether subject to exceptions and modifications or not and with or without other provisions of that Act) have effect as they have effect in relation to medicinal products as so defined.”