C.S.0.
943
[No. 37--19.8.32.-2.1
A BILL
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend and consolidate the law relating to
dangerous drugs.
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Dangerous Drugs Short title. Ordinance, 1932.
2. (1) In this Ordinance,
(a) "To export" means to carry or otherwise despatch out of the Colony or to cause to be carried or otherwise despatched out of the Colony and includes the conveyance of things out of the Colony by transit mail or any other mail and the carriage out of the Colony of things which were carried into the Colony by water or by air and which are carried out of the Colony on the same ship or aircraft on which they are carried into the Colony with or without any landing or transhipment.
(b) "To import" means to carry or otherwise bring into the Colony or to cause to be carried or otherwise brought into the Colony and includes the conveyance of things into the Colony by transit mail or any other mail and the carriage by water or by air into the Colony of things which are in- tended to be carried out of the Colony on the same ship or aircraft on which they were carried into the Colony with or without any landing transhipment.
(c) "Person", except so far as relates to the imposition of the penalty of imprisonment, includes a body corporate and a firm.
(d) "Ship" includes every description of vessel used in navigation or for the carriage or storage of goods.
(e) Superintendent" means the Superintendent of Im-
ports and Exports and includes any Assistant Superintendent.
Interpreta- tion.
(f) "Coca leaves" means the leaves of any plant of the 15 & 16 Geo. genus of the erythroxylaceae from which cocaine can be 5, 74, s. 1. extracted either directly or by chemical transformation
(9) "Indian hemp" means the dried flowering or fruiting 15 & 16 Geo. tops of the pistillate plant known as cannabis sativa from 5. e. 74, s. 1. which the resin has not been extracted, by whatever name such tops are called.
(h) "Medicinal opium" means raw opium which has 15 & 16 Geo. undergone the processes necessary to adapt it for medicinal 5. e. 74, s. 4. use in accordance with the requirements of the British Phar- mocopoeia, whether it is in the form of powder or is granulated or is in any other form, and whether it is or is not mixed with neutral substances.