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CHAPTER 17.

[1st March, 1911.]

IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as the "Habit-forming Drugs Act."

Short title.

heroin.

2. No person shall sell or expose or offer for sale, or give, deliver, Cocaine, morphine, or exchange, any cocaine or any Alpha or Beta eucaine, or any synthetic substitute for either of them, or any preparation containing the same or any salts or compounds thereof, or any morphine or heroin, or salt of morphine or heroin, either alone or in combination with other substances, except as authorised by the "Proprietary or Patent Medicine Act" of Canada, without having first received therefor the written prescription of a physician, dentist, or veterinary surgeon registered under the laws of the Province of British Columbia; such prescription may be filled only by a pharmacist or certified clerk as provided by the "Pharmacy Act" and amending Acts, and no copy thereof shall be made, and the prescription shall be retained by the pharmacist filling the same for at least two years, and shall not again be filled except upon the written order of the original prescriber, and shall be open to inspection by the officers of the Provincial Board of Health, the officers of the Provincial Police Department, and the police authorities of any municipality within the Province of British Columbia. But no practitioner of veterinary medicine shall prescribe any of the above-mentioned substances for the use of any human being.

3. Any manufacturer or jobber of any or all of the articles men- Sale by whom. tioned in section 2 hereof, any wholesale druggist, or any registered

Penalty for giving prescriptions other

treatment.

pharmacist may sell any article mentioned in said section 2 to any manufacturer, jobber, or wholesale druggist, or to any pharmacist, physician, dentist, or veterinary surgeon registered under the laws of the Province in which he resides, or to any incorporated hospital, but only upon a written order duly signed by such manufacturer, jobber, wholesale druggist, registered pharmacist, registered physician, registered dentist, registered veterinary surgeon, or the superintendent of such incorporated hospital, which order shall show the article or articles ordered and be indorsed by the vendor with the date of delivery. The said order shall be kept on file in the laboratory, warehouse, pharmacy, or store from which it was filled, by the proprietor thereof or his successor, for a period of not less than two years from date of delivery, and shall be open to inspection by the officers of the Provincial Board of Health, the officers of the Provincial Police Department, and the police authorities of any municipality within the Province of British Columbia; and such order shall not contain any articles not mentioned in section 2 of this Act.

4. Any physician who signs any prescription or order for the than for professional filling of which any drug is required, unless such drug is required for medicinal purposes or is prescribed for the medical treatment of a person who is under professional treatment by such physician, and any dentist or veterinary surgeon who signs any order for any drug, unless such drug is required for medicinal purposes in connection with his practice as a dentist or veterinary surgeon, shall, upon summary conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars and costs.

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Repeal.

5. Every person, firm, or corporation failing to observe any of the provisions of this Act shall, on conviction thereof before any Justice. of the Peace, incur a penalty not less than ten dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars, and, in default, to imprisonment not to exceed three months, with hard labour. The provisions of all other Acts relating to the sale of the drugs mentioned in section 2 of this Act are hereby repealed in so far as such provisions are inconsistent with this Act and in so far only as such provisions relate to the sale of such drugs.

VICTORIA, B. C.:

Printed by RICHARD WOLFENDEN, I.S.O., V.D., Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.

1911.

[1st March, 1911.]

IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as the "Foul Brood Act, 1911."

Short title.

2. (1.) The word "Minister," whenever used in this Act, shall Interpretation. mean the Minister of Finance and Agriculture for the Province of British Columbia.

(2.) The word "Inspector" shall mean Inspector of Apiaries for the Province of British Columbia.

Inspectors.

3. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may from time to time Appointment of appoint such person or persons as he shall think proper to act as Inspector or Inspectors to carry out the provisions of this Act, and such Inspectors shall be under the direction and control of the Minister.

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Inspectors.

4. (1.) The said Inspector shall, whenever so directed by the Duties of Minister, visit without unnecessary delay any locality in the Province of British Columbia and there examine such apiary or apiaries as the said Minister may direct, and ascertain whether or not the diseases known as "foul brood" or black brood," or either of them, exist in such apiary or apiaries, or in their vicinity. (2.) Wherever the said Inspector is satisfied of the existence of such disease in its virulent or malignant type, he shall order all colonies so affected, together with the hives occupied by them, and the contents of such hives and all tainted appurtenances or appli ances that cannot be disinfected, to be immediately destroyed by fire under his personal direction and superintendence, and in such

Box hives.

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manner as may be necessary to prevent the spread of the said disease, and to thoroughly disinfect any appurtenances or appliances capable of being disinfected.

(3.) Where the Inspector, who shall be the sole judge thereof, is satisfied that the disease exists, but only in milder types and in its incipient stages, and is being or may be treated successfully, and has reason to believe that it may be entirely cured and eradicated, then the Inspector may omit to destroy or order the destruction of the colonies and hives in which such disease exists, but shall give the owner or caretaker of the diseased apiary or apiaries full instructions how to treat said cases. The Minister shall cause said apiary or apiaries to be visited from time to time, as he may deem best, and if after proper treatment the said bees shall not be cured of the disease, then he may cause the same, with the hives and all tainted appurtenances and appliances, to be destroyed as in the preceding subsection hereof provided.

(4.) After inspecting infected hives or fixtures or handling diseased bees, the Inspector shall, before leaving the premises, or inspecting any other colony of bees or proceeding to any other apiary, thoroughly disinfect his own person and clothing, and shall see that every assistant with him also thoroughly disinfects his person and clothing.

5. The Inspector shall have full power, in his discretion, to order any owner or possessor of bees dwelling in box hives (being mere boxes without frames) to transfer such bees to movable frame hives within a specified time; and in default of such transfer, the Inspector may destroy or order the destruction of such box hives and the bees dwelling therein, or may himself cause such bees to be so transferred.

6. Any owner or caretaker of diseased colonies of bees, or of infected bees or bee any affected appliances, who knowingly sells, or barters, or gives

appliances.

Selling bees after treatment, or exposing infected appliances.

away such diseased colonies or any bees, comb, or honey therefrom, or any infected appliances, shall, on conviction thereof before any Justice of the Peace, be liable to a fine of not less than fifty dollars and not more than one hundred dollars, or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two months.

7. Any person whose bees have been destroyed, or are being or have been treated for foul brood or black brood, who sells or offers for sale any honey-comb, honey, bees, hives, appurtenances, or appliances of any kind after such destruction or treatment, and before being authorised by the Inspector so to do, or who knowingly exposes in his bee-yard or elsewhere any infected comb, honey, or other infected thing, or conceals the fact that said disease exists among his bees, shall, on conviction before a Justice of the Peace, be liable to a fine of not less than twenty dollars and not more