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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 4, 1910.
Addition of proviso te
section 27
of the
Principal Ordinance.
Amendment
of section 56 of the Principal Ordinance.
Certificate of Government Analyst to be sufficient evidence.
Amendment
of section 85 of the Principal Ordinance.
(2.) Any person not holding an appropriate licence under section 51 or 53 of the Principal Ordinance found in possession within the Colony of more thau 12 official doses of morphine or any compound of opium shall be deemed to have committed an offence against this Ordinance unless he proves to the satisfaction of the Court or a Magistrate that such morphine or compound of opium is exempt from the provisions of this Ordinance : Provided that the persons enumerated in section 1 sub-sections 3 (a), (b), (e) and (d) of the Pharmacy Ordinance, 1908, may have in their possession a quantity reasonably required for their practice.
(3.) "Official dose' means a quantity equal to the maximum safe dose for an adult according to the British Pharmacopoeia.
4. The following proviso shall be inserted at the end of section 37 of the Principal Ordinance :-
• Provided always that this section shall not be con- strued as applying to the possession by a pas- senger by steamer from Hongkong to any country or place not within the Colony of a quantity of prepared opium or dross opium, to be used for personal consumption on the voyage, not exceeding five mace for every day of duration of the voyage."
5. Section 56 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by inserting the words "any of" between the words "from" and "the" in the fourth line thereol.
6. The following section numbered 79a is hereby in- serted after section 79 of the Principal Ordinance :-
"79. At the hearing of any charge under this Ordinance the production of the certificate of the Government Analyst shall be sufficient evidence of the facts therein stated, unless the defendant requires that the Analyst should be called as a witness, but if the Analyst is called by or at the request of the defendant the Magistrate may order the defendant if cou- victed on the charge in respect of which the Analyst is called to give evidence to pay a fee of $25 for the attendance of the Analyst, such fee to be recoverable in the same way as a penalty imposed under this Ordinance is reco- verable, and to be paid into the Treasury."
7. Section 85 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by substituting the words "halan, compounds of opium or morphine" for the words "or halan" in the fifth line thereof.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 2nd day of June, 1910.
C. CLEMENTI,
Clerk of Councils.
Assented to by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, the 4th day of June, 1910.
A. M. THOMSON,
Colonial Secretary.