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3. This Ordinance adds a sub-section to section 13 of the principal Ordinance to give effect to Article III of the Bangkok Agreement which requires that prepared opium should be sold only for cash.
4. The proviso to section 20 of the principal Ordinance, which permitted passengers under special permit to carry smail quantities of prepared opium for personal consumption on the voyage, is repealed. No special permits have been issued and the proviso is considered to be in conflict with Article 6 of the Geneva Prepared Opium Agreement of February, 1925, under which His Majesty's Government have undertaken to prohibit, without exception, the export of opium from any possession or territory into which it is imported for the purpose of smoking.
5. The repeal of the proviso to section 20 has rendered necessary the consequential repeal of references thereto in sections 13 (2) and 22 of the principal Ordinance.
September, 1932.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.