Methylated Spirits (Sale by Retail) (Scotland) Act 1937
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1937 c. 48 |
| Year | 1937 |
Methylated Spirits (Sale by Retail) (Scotland) Act, 1937
(1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6.) CHAPTER 48.
An Act to control the sale in Scotland of methylated spirits or surgical spirit and of methylated spirits in admixture; and for other purposes connected therewith.
[13th July 1937]
B E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Restrictions on sale of methylated spirits.
(1) It shall not be lawful to sell by retail any methylated spirits or surgical spirit unless—
(i) either the seller is an authorised seller of poisons and the sale is effected on registered premises or the seller's name is entered in a local authority's list kept in pursuance of this Act, and the sale is effected on premises specified in that list; and
(ii) the bottle or other vessel in which such methylated spirits or surgical spirit are sold bears a label specifying the name of the seller and the premises on which they are sold and containing the words ‘methylated spirits’ or ‘surgical spirit’, as the case may be; and
(iii) the seller has, prior to the delivery of the methylated spirits or surgical spirit, made or caused to be made an entry in a book to be kept for that purpose, stating in the prescribed form the date of the sale, the name and address of the purchaser, the quantity of the methylated spirits or surgical spirit sold and the purpose for which they are stated by the purchaser to be required; and
(iv) either (a ) the purchaser has affixed his signature to the entry aforesaid or (b ) the seller has before delivery of the methylated spirits or surgical spirit received an order signed by the purchaser specifying his address, the quantity of the methylated spirits or surgical spirit to be purchased, and the purpose for which they are required, and the seller is reasonably satisfied that the signature affixed to such order is the signature of the person purporting to sign it, and the seller has entered in the place reserved for the signature of the purchaser in the book required by the last foregoing paragraph to be kept, the words ‘Signed order.’
(2) It shall not be lawful knowingly to sell by retail methylated spirits or surgical spirit to any person under the age of fourteen.
(3) Nothing in the foregoing provisions of this section shall apply to surgical spirit sold by an authorised seller of poisons on registered premises or supplied by a duly qualified medical practitioner, registered dentist or registered veterinary surgeon for the purposes respectively specified in subsection (1) of section nineteen of the Pharmacy and Poisons Act, 1933 of the said section are complied with in relation to such sale or supply of surgical spirit in like manner as if it were a medicine.
2 Lists of persons entitled to sell methylated spirits.
(1) Every local authority shall keep for the purposes of this Act a list containing the names of persons, other than authorised sellers of poisons, who are to be entitled (subject to the possession of the necessary excise licence), to sell methylated spirits or surgical spirit by retail, and specifying the premises on which such persons are respectively to be so entitled to sell, and subject as hereinafter provided, shall, on application in the prescribed form by any person having premises in the area of the authority to have his name and such premises entered in the list, enter the same therein:
Provided that the local authority may refuse to enter in, or may remove from, the list the name of any person who fails to pay the prescribed fees, or who in the opinion of the authority is, for any sufficient reason, not fit to he in the list.
(2) Any person whose name is entered in a local authority's list shall be entitled on payment of the prescribed fee, to a certificate under the hand of the clerk or other officer of the local authority that his name is so entered.
(3) Any person aggrieved by the refusal of the local authority to enter his name in the list or by the removal of his name therefrom under the foregoing provisions of this section may, in accordance with rules made for the purpose of this section by Act...
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