13 & 14 Geo. 5, c. 5, s. 6; 22 Geo. 5,
c. 15, s. 3.
Restrictions on dealings in dangerous
drugs and coca leaves.
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(2) "Corresponding law" in this Ordinance means any law stated in a certificate purporting to be issued by or on behalf of the Government of any place outside the Colony to be a law providing for the control and regulation in that place of the manufacture, sale, use, export and import of drugs in accordance with the provisions of the International Opium Convention signed at the Hague on the 23rd day of January, 1912, or of the International Opium Convention signed at Geneva on the 19th day of February, 1925, or of the Con- vention signed at Geneva on behalf of His Majesty on the 13th day of July, 1931, and any statement in any such certi- ficate as to the effect of the law mentioned in the certificate, or any statement in any such certificate that any facts con- stitute an offence against that law, shall be conclusive Any such certificate shall be admitted in evidence upon production by or on behalf of the Superintendent in any proceeding.
3.--(1) Except under and in accordance with a licence granted under this Ordinance no person shall, whether on his own behalf or on behalf of any other person, whether such other person be in the Colony or not, buy, sell, supply, procure, or offer to supply or procure, from, to or for any other person, whether such other person be in the Colony or not, or in any way deal in or with, or offer to deal in, or pretend to deal in, or have in his possession, or import or export, or do any act preparatory to or for the purpose of importing or exporting, any drug to which this Ordinance ap- plies, whether such drug he in the Colony or elsewhere, and whether it be ascertained or appropriated or in existence or not, and whether it be intended that it should be imported into the Colony or not.
(2) Subject to the obtaining of a licence under sub- section (1) before importation, any drug to which this Ordin- ance applies which is imported by water from a place from which such drug may by the law of that place legally be exported, under a through bill of lading for any place into which such drug may by the law of that place legally be imported, may be imported into the Colony by water and may be exported to such place by water provided that the following conditions are complied with :-
(a) The ship on which the drug is imported shall upon entering the waters of the Colony proceed direct and forth- with to the harbour of Victoria and shall forthwith enter such harbour.
(b) Full particulars as to the description, weight, con-- signors, consignees and destination of the drug, and as to the marks and numbers of the cases in which it is contained. shall appear in the manifest of the said ship.
(c) The presence of the drug on board the said ship shall be reported in writing to the Superintendent by the master of the ship within four hours after the arrival of the ship in the harbour of Victoria: Provided that if the office of the Superintendent is not open for the four hours immediately after the arrival of the ship in the harbour of Victoria the report required by this paragraph may be made to the inspector on duty at the Central Police Station.
(d) The drug shall not be :-
(i) removed from the ship on which it was imported, or (ii) in any way moved in the Colony after removal from such ship, or