Section 29: Exceptions.

Nothing in this Ordinance shall be taken to extend or apply to the sale by any person of the following articles, that is to say- (1) any patent, proprietary or homreopathic medicines- (a) if sold in a box, bottle, vessel or parcel under the original wrapper or cover under which it was imported into Sierra Leone; (b) if prepared by any person acting as a druggist in Sierra Leone and placed by him in some box, bottle, vessel or parcel: Provided always that such box, bottle, vessel or parcel is properly secured and bears the seal, name or trade mark of the proprietor, inventor or manufacturer thereof, and that with each box, bottle, vessel or parcel, directions for the use of the contents thereof are supplied, and that if such medicine be a poison it be labelled as such, and a sale of poisons book is kept in the form hereinafter provided, and proper entries made therein; (2) mineral or artificial waters or the salts or other material employed in their preparation; (3) simple medical substances enumerated in Schedule F; (4) any herb, vegetable, gum, oil or seed in its natural state not being a poison, though the same may be employed in medicine; {5) any herbal or native preparation which is supplied by any person dealing only with herbal or native preparations used as medicine in Sierra Leone. Medical Practitioners, Dentists and Druggists [Cap. 151 1581