
1 
This Order may be cited as the Poisons List Order 1982 and shall come into operation on 1st April 1982.
2 
The Poisons List shall be amended and varied so as to consist of the following substances only, that is to say:—
(a) as to Part I of the List (substances which, where they are non-medicinal poisons, and subject to the provisions of the Poisons Act 1972, are not to be sold except by a person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business), of the substances specified in Part I of the Schedule to this Order; and
(b) as to Part II of the List (substances which, where they are non-medicinal poisons, and subject to the provisions of the Poisons Act 1972, are not to be sold except by a person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business or by a person whose name is entered in a local authority's list), of the substances specified in Part II of that Schedule.
W.S.I. Whitelaw
One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State
Home Office
19th February 1982
SCHEDULE
PART I
 Aluminium phosphide
 Arsenic; its compounds, other than those specified in Part II of this List
 Barium, salts of, other than barium sulphate and the salts of barium specified in Part II of this List
 Bromomethane
 Chloropicrin
 Fluoroacetic acid; its salts; fluoroacetamide
 Hydrogen cyanide; metal cyanides, other than ferrocyanides and ferricyanides
 Lead acetates; compounds of lead with acids from fixed oils
 Mercury, compounds of, the following:—
 nitrates of mercury; oxides of mercury; mercuric cyanide oxides; mercuric thiocyanate; ammonium mercuric chlorides; potassium mercuric iodides; organic compounds of mercury which contain a methyl (CH3) group directly linked to the mercury atom
 Oxalic acid
 Phenols (any member of the series of phenols of which the first member is phenol and of which the molecular composition varies from member to member by one atom of carbon and two atoms of hydrogen) except in substances containing less than sixty per cent., weight in weight, of phenols; compounds of phenols with a metal, except in substances containing less than the equivalent of sixty per cent., weight in weight, of phenols
 Phosphorus, yellow
 Strychnine; its salts; its quaternary compounds
 Thallium, salts of

PART II
 Aldicarb
 Alpha-chloralose
 Ammonia
 Arsenic, compounds of, the following:—
 Calcium arsenites
 Copper acetoarsenite
 Copper arsenates
 Copper arsenites
 Lead arsenates
 Barium, salts of, the following:—
 Barium carbonate
 Barium silicofluoride
 Carbofuran
 Cycloheximide
 Dinitrocresols (DNOC); their compounds with a metal or a base
 Dinoseb; its compounds with a metal or a base
 Dinoterb
 Drazoxolon; its salts
 Endosulfan
 Endothal; its salts
 Endrin
 Fentin, compounds of
 Formaldehyde
 Formic acid
 Hydrochloric acid
 Hydrofluoric acid; alkali metal bifluorides; ammonium bifluoride; alkali metal fluorides; ammonium fluoride; sodium silicofluoride
 Mercuric chloride; mercuric iodide; organic compounds of mercury except compounds which contain a methyl (CH3) group directly linked to the mercury atom
 Metallic oxalates
 Methomyl
 Nicotine; its salts; its quaternary compounds
 Nitric acid
 Nitrobenzene
 Oxamyl
 Paraquat, salts of
 Phenols (as defined in Part I of this List) in substances containing less than sixty per cent., weight in weight, of phenols; compounds of phenols with a metal in substances containing less than the equivalent of sixty per cent., weight in weight, of phenols
 Phosphoric acid
 Phosphorus compounds, the following:—
 Azinphos-methyl, chlorfenvinphos, demephion, demeton-S-methyl, demeton-S-methyl sulphone, dialifos, dichlorvos, dioxathion, disulfoton, fonofos, mecarbam, mephosfolan, methidathion, mevinphos, omethoate, oxydemeton-methyl, parathion, phenkapton, phorate, phosphamidon, pirimiphos-ethyl, quinalphos, thiometon, thionazin, triazophos, vamidothion
 Potassium hydroxide
 Sodium hydroxide
 Sodium nitrite
 Sulphuric acid
 Thiofanox
 Zinc phosphide
