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2. This Ordinance accordingly adds a proviso to section 10 of the principal Ordinance making it clear that the power to appoint suitable persons to sell prepared opium is to be exercised only where local circumstances make the establish- ment of Government opium shops difficult.
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passengers under special permit to carry small quantities of prepared opium for personal consumption on the voyage, is repealed.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.
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