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(c) He proves that the drug was supplied for his use or for the treatment of some animal under his care by a practitioner or pursuant to a prescription given by a practitioner in compliance with the provisions of Regulation 7 hereof:

Provided that the exemption contained in this paragraph shall not apply if such person is in course of being supplied with the same drug for the same purpose by any other practitioner, or pursuant to a prescription given by any other practitioner, and did not disclose that fact to the first-named practitioner before the supply of such drug by the first-named practitioner or before the giving by the first-named practitioner of the prescription pursuant to which he obtained possession of such drug; or

(d) He is a person in charge of a laboratory maintained for purposes of research or study at a university college or other institution approved by the Director-General, or a person engaged in the duties of an analyst under the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1908, and (unless for the time being exempted from so doing by permission under the hand of the Director-General) keeps the Register required to be kept by a licensee under Regulation 6 hereof, and proves that the quantity of such drug obtained or in his possession was not greater than was necessary for the purposes of such laboratory or of his duties as an analyst as the case may be; or

(e) His possession is for or on behalf of a person lawfully entitled to the possession of such drug.

REGULATION 9.—EXEMPTIONS.

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in these regulations it shall be lawful for any occupier of a factory within the meaning of the Factories Act, 1921–22, to obtain from a licensee, without a prescription or other authorization, and to have in his possession at such factory, and for any licensee to supply to such occupier accordingly, and for such occupier or any person acting by his direction, to administer on the factory premises as first-aid treatment in case of injury to the eye a preparation consisting of an admixture of cocaine in castor oil with mercuric chloride in a proportion of not more than one part in 200 of cocaine and not less than one part in 3,000 of mercuric chloride.

(2) No person in possession of the preparation aforesaid by virtue of the authority conferred by this regulation shall use the same, or cause or permit the same to be used, for any purpose except for administration on the factory premises as first-aid treatment in cases of injury to the eye, or shall keep the same, or cause or permit the same to be kept, elsewhere than on the factory premises in a place of safety in the custody of the occupier or some responsible person nominated by the occupier, by nomination in writing kept at the factory, and available at any time for inspection by any police officer or officer of the Health Department.

(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in these regulations it shall be lawful for any person for the time being, approved in writing by the Director-General, engaged in dispensing medicine at any hospital or other institution under the control of a Hospital Board constituted under the Hospital and Charitable Institutions Act, 1926, or any separate institution under that Act, or any private hospital licensed under that Act or any institution maintained by the State, or any institution licensed under the Mental Defectives Act, 1911, to procure and be supplied with any dangerous drug, and to be in possession of any dangerous drug, and to administer any dangerous drug to any inmate or out-patient of such hospital or institution:

Provided that, unless for the time being exempted from so doing by permission under the hand of the Director-General, such person shall keep the Register required to be kept by a licensee under Regulation 6 hereof:

Provided also that this clause shall not authorize any person to be in possession of any dangerous drug except for the purpose of such administration as aforesaid, or to be in possession of a quantity of dangerous drugs in excess of the quantity reasonably necessary for the purposes of such administration as aforesaid.

(4) These regulations shall not apply to the preparations named in the Second Schedule hereto.