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134 PDFTitle:DANGEROUS DRUGS ORDINANCEGazette Number:2 of 2012
Section:27Heading:Statutory authority to possess equipment and apparatus for injection of dangerous drugsVersion Date:17/02/2012

(1) The following persons are hereby authorized to have in their possession equipment or apparatus fit and intended for the injection of a dangerous drug (or, in the case of paragraph (d), a specified dangerous drug), so far as may be necessary for the purposes of the practice or exercise of their profession, function or employment, that is to say-

        (a) any registered medical practitioner;
        (b) any registered dentist;
        (c) any person employed or engaged in a prescribed hospital, in a health centre or clinic maintained by the Government or in a health centre or clinic of the Hong Kong Garrison; and (Amended 2 of 2012 s. 3)
        (d) any specified person. (Added 2 of 1992 s. 8)
(2) A person is hereby authorized to have in his possession equipment or apparatus fit and intended for the injection of-
        (a) a dangerous drug if the same is for use for the injection into himself of a dangerous drug on the direction of a registered medical practitioner for the purposes of medical treatment; or
        (b) a specified dangerous drug if the same is for use for the injection into himself of such drug on the direction of a specified person for the purposes of medical treatment. (Replaced 2 of 1992 s. 8)
(Amended 2 of 1992 s. 8)