# Sale of Arsenic Regulation Act 1851, Introduction: Introductory text


An Act to regulate the Sale of Arsenic.
[5th June 1851]
WHEREAS the unrestricted Sale of Arsenic facilitates the Commission of Crime:
Be it enacted by the Queen'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:

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/14-15/13/introduction (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/sale-of-arsenic-regulation-act-1851/introduction
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