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Poisons Act 1971
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1 Short title and commencement
(1) This Act may be cited as the Poisons Act 1971 .
(2) Subsection (1) of section 2 shall commence on the day on which Part III commences and subsection (2) of that section shall commence on the day on which Part V commences.
(3) The remaining provisions of this Act (other than this section, Division 1 of Part II , and section 14 ) shall commence on such days respectively as are fixed by proclamation in relation to each of those provisions.