law: Poisons Act, 1919
  2. Power of the State Government to regulate
  
  possession for sale and sale of any poison
  (1) 4[***] The 5[State Government] may by rule
  
  regulate within the whole or any part of the territories under its
  
  administration the possession for the sale and the sale, whether wholesale or
  
  retail, of any specified poison.
  (2) In particular, and without prejudice to
  
  the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for-
  (a) the grant of
  
  licenses to possess any specified poison for sale, wholesale or retail, and the
  
  fixing of the fee (if any) to be charged for such licenses;
  (b) the classes of
  
  persons to whom alone such licenses may be granted;
  (c) the classes of
  
  persons to whom alone any such poison may be sold;
  (d) the maximum
  
  quantity of any such poison which may be sold to any one person;
  (e) the maintenance by
  
  vendors of any such poison of registers of sales, the particulars to be entered
  
  in such registers, and the inspection of the same;
  (f) the safe custody
  
  of such poisons and the labeling of the vessels, packages or coverings in which
  
  any such poison is sold or possessed for sale; and
  (g) the inspection and
  
  examination of any such poison when possessed for sale by any such vendor.