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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 3, 1909.
PART III.
MORPHINE AND COMPOUNDS OF OPIUM.
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48. (1.) Every person who administers by injection any Penalty for morphine to any other person, except in a case where administra- the same has been prescribed by some duly qualified medical morphine, practitioner, shall," on conviction before a Magistrate, be except in liable to a penalty not execeding fifty dollars or to impri- certain case. somment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding two months,
(2.) The onus of proving the exception shall lie on the person so administering the morphine.
except in
49.-(1) Every person who, except in a case where Penalty for morphiuc has been prescribed by some duly qualified medical furnishing practitioner, furnishes morphine to any person, except to a morphine, duly qualified medical practitioner or to a chemist Or certain case. druggist, shall, ou conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding two months.
(2.) The onus of proving the exception shall lic on the person furnishing morphine as aforesaid.
Provided that this section shall not apply to the furnish- ing of morphine for the purpose of bonû-fide exportation.
Power to
Pence to authorize entry of
50. It shall be lawful for any Police Officer, duly au- thorized by warrant of any Justice of the Peace (which Justice of shall be in the form in Schedule C to this Ordinance), with such assistants as may be necessary, to enter and, necessary, to break into any place which such Justice of house, &c., the Peace may, from the information upon oath, affirmation where the or declaration of any person, or of his own knowledge, have injection of reasonable grounds to suspect and believe to be a place kept carried on,
morphine is or used for the injection of morphiae contrary to the provi- &c, sions of this Ordinance or where such injection is carried Schedule C. on, and to arrest any persons who may he found therein and whom he may suspect to have acted or to be acting in contravention of this Ordinance, and to seize all morphine, hypodermie syringes, and other appliances which may be Found there and which are capable of being used for the injection of morphine, and, on conviction of the offender, or in any case, if the Magistrate so orders, they shall be for- feited to His Majesty, his heirs and successors, and be dealt with as the Magistrate may direct.
51.-(1.) It shall be lawful for the Principal Civil Medical Conditional Officer to grant licences to such persons as he may think licence for fit for importing for sale or use within the Colony, preparing, importing, manufacturing, or dealing in morphine and compounds of mor
phine and opium, provided that the total number of licences which compounds may be granted and the conditions of such licences shall be of opium for determined by regulations made by the Governor-iu-Comucil sale or use and published in The Gazette.
(2.) Any person importing, manufacturing or dealing in morphine or any compound of opium without such licence shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.
(3.) Any such licence may be revoked by the Governor- in-Council at his discretion without assigning cause.
(4.) There shall be paid for each such licence an annual fes of twenty-five dollars which shall be awarded to the Opium Farmer, and the holder of any such licence shall pay to the Opium Farmer a royalty calculated at the rate of ten dollars per tael of morphine and four dollars per tael of opium or compound of opium other than morphine which royalty may be recovered by the Opium Farmer in a summary way before a Magistrate.
(5.) If the holder of any such licence does not comply with the conditions of the licence he shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.
within the Colony,
52. No person shall export morphine or any compound Prohibition of opium from the Colony to China or to any country of exporta which prohibits or restricts the import of morphine or of tion to such compound of opium, except in such quantities and China, etc. subject to such regulations as may be prescribed by the country to which such export is intended, provided that the names of all countries which prohibit or restrict the import of morphine or of compounds of opium and the regu- lations prescribed by such countries as aforesaid shall be notified in The Gazette.
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