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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
No. S. 173.-The following Bills were read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 10th May, 1934 :-
C.S.O. 1 in 4299/32.
A BILL
[No. 5-23.3.34.—1.]
Short title.
Substitution for Ordin-
ance No. 7
of 1932,
s. 15, as
amended by Ordinance No. 16 of 1933.
Opium
divans and smoking therein prohibited.
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend the law relating to Opium.
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 Opium Amend- ment Ordinance, 1931.
2. Section 15 of the Opium Ordinance, 1932, as amend- ed by the Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1933, is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :--
15.-(1) No person shall
(a) smoke opium in any opium divan; or
(6) keep or manage or act or assist in the management of any opium 'divan; or
(c) being the tenant, lessee, occupier, or person in charge of any place, knowingly permit such place or any part thereof to be used as an opium divan; or
(d) being the lessor or landlord of any place, or the agent of such lessor or landlord, let the same or any part thereof with the knowledge that such place or some part thereof is to be used as an opium divan, or consent to the use, at any time, of such place or any part thereof as an opium divan.
(2) In and for the purposes of this section
(a) "lessee" and "tenant" respectively include any sub-lessee or sub-tenant;
(b) "lessor" and "landlord" respectively include the holder of any lease or tenancy who has sublet his holding or any part thereof; and
(c) the lessor or landlord of any place, or the agent of such lessor or landlord, shall be presumed to have consented to the use of such place as an opium divan, if it is proved, to. the satisfaction of the magistrate, that he knew of such use. and failed forthwith to proceed to put an end to the same, by making a report at the nearest police station, or by terminating the lease or tenancy, or by such other means as are reasonably sufficient in all the circumstances of the case.