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2. Section 13 of Ordinance No. 7 of 1932 as amended by section 4 of Ordinance No. 36 of 1932 did not expressly enact this prohibition and apparently authorised sales by the Superintendent; though in fact no such sales have ever been made or proposed.
3. Section 2 of this amending Ordinance therefore repeals section 13 and substitutes a redrafted section.
4. In the substituted sub-section (1) the words "under section 10" are new and are added to make the sub-section conform with sub-section (2) which is a re-enactment of sub- section (2) of Ordinance No. 7 of 1932 as amended by section 3 of Ordinance No. 36 of 1932. Moreover the words "or any opium dross" at the end of the sub-section have been omitted in the substituted sub-section (1).
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5. In the substituted sub-section (3) the words opium dross", which appeared in the sub-section added to the principal Ordinance by No. 36 of 1932, have been omitted.
6. Sub-section (4) is new and contains the prohibition required by Article 5 of the Agreement of the 11th February, 1925.
7. Section 3 of this Amending Ordinance adds a sub- section to section 15 of the principal Ordinance. The section already penalises the keepers of opium divans and the smokers therein. The added sub-section, which is drafted on the lines of section 11 of Ordinance No. 4 of 1897, brings within the scope of the section owners, occupiers and managers of premises who knowingly suffer them to be used as divans.
May, 1933.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.