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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 27, 1909.
A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to amend and consolidate the Laws
relating to Opium and its Compounds,
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Opium Ordin- Short title. ance, 1909,
2. In this Ordinance unless the context otherwise re- Interpret- quires,--
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“Raw Opium means any kind of opium not pre- pared for smoking, chewing, swallowing or injecting and includes the leaves or wrappings in which opium balls have been wrapped :
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Prepared Opium" means any preparation of opium or any preparation in which opium forms an ingredient which preparation is used or intended to be used for smoking, but it does not include dross opium or any of the alkaloids or salts of the alkaloids of opium :
The subjecting of opium of any kind to any degree of artificial heat, for any purpose whatever, shall be taken to be the preparing of such opium :
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“Opium Dross means the residuum produced by smoking prepared opium:
“Dross Opium” means a preparation of opium in which opium dross is an ingredient :
"Halau means the residuum produced by smoking dross opium:
"Compound of Opium" means any substance, except opium prepared for smoking purposes, which contains any constituent or alkaloid or salt of an alkaloid of opium :
The presence of meconic acid and of one other con- stituent of opium shall be considered to be proof of the presence of opium :
Morphine" includes morphia and all salts of mor- phine and any solution or preparation containing mor- phine or its salts :
"Opium" includes raw opium, prepared opium, opium dross, dross opium, halan, compounds of opium and morphine:
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"Chest of Opium means a package with the raw opium contained in it of the size and character gener- ally used by merchants for the importation of raw opium:
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"Loose Opium means all raw opium found or discovered otherwise than in a chest full of one quality of raw opium:
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"The Colony includes the waters thereof and the additional territories acquired under the Convention dated the 9th day of June, 1898, between Her Majesty Queen Victoria and His Majesty the Emperor of China for the enlargement of the limits of the Colony including the City of Kowloon :
ation of terms.
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