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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 8, 1932.
Opium divans and smoking therein prohibited.
Presump-
tions (1) as to opium divans, (2) as to
smoking opium in an opium divan.
Unlawful possession of Govern- ment opium labels and
wrappers.
Possession
of labels, etc.,
resembling
Government
(2) No person shall aid, abet, counsel or procure any such sale, purchase, smoking or possession.
15. (1) No person shall open or keep an opium divan.
(2) No person shall smoke opium in any opium divan.
16.—(1) Where two or more persons are found smoking opium in any place, such persons not being residents in the said place, it shall, until the contrary is proved, be presumed-
(a) that the said place is an opium divan; and
(b) that the tenant or occupier of the said place is keep- ing the said place as an opium divan, provided that such tenant or occupier or a servant of such tenant or occupier is present at the time of the finding of such persons.
(2) Every person found in any opium divan or found escaping therefrom on the occasion of its being entered under this Ordinance shall, until the contrary is proved, be presumed to be or to have been smoking opium therein.
17.-(1) No person shall, without lawful authority or excuse, have in his possession, except attached to a recep- tacle issued by the Superintendent and containing Government prepared opium, any label or wrapper of a kind used by the Superintendent for affixing to receptacles con- taining Government prepared opium, or any portion of any such label or wrapper.
(2) No person shall, without lawful authority or excuse, have in his possession, except attached to a receptacle issued by the Superintendent and containing the full quantity of Government prepared opium contained therein at the time of issue, any label or wrapper of a kind used by the Super- intendent for affixing to receptacles containing Government prepared opium, unless such label or wrapper has been broken in such a way as to make it impracticable to use the label or wrapper again.
18.-(1) No person shall, without lawful authority or excuse, have in his possession any label, wrapper, or mark, so resembling any label, wrapper, or mark used by the opium labels, Superintendent in connexion with Government prepared opium as to constitute a colourable imitation thereof, or have in his possession any die, block, or type apparently intended for the production of any such label, wrapper, or mark.
and dies.
etc., for the
production of such labels,
etc.
Counter- feiting
Government opium pre- parations or distinctive marks thereon.
(2) For the purposes of this section, "label", "wrap- per", "mark", "die", "block" and "type" shall be deemed respectively to include any portion of a label, wrapper, mark, die, block or type.
19. No person shall mix anything with prepared opium with the intention of causing it to be believed that such prepared opium is Government prepared opium, or shall counterfeit any mark used by the Superintendent to denote that the prepared opium contained in any receptacle is Government prepared opium, or shall use as genuine any such mark.
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