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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 6, 1935.

(b) except where the drug comes from a country not a party to the Convention, it is accompanied by a valid and subsisting export authorization or diversion certificate, as the case may be.

(2) Where any dangerous drug in transit is accompanied by an export authorization or diversion certificate and the Superintendent has reasonable grounds for believing that such authorization or certificate is false, or that it has been obtained by fraud or wilful misrepresentation of a material particular, it shall be lawful for the Superintendent to seize and detain the drug to which such authorization or certificate relates. Upon being satisfied that such authorization or certificate is valid or has not been obtained by fraud or misrepresentation as aforesaid the Superintendent shall release the drug.

(3) Where the dangerous drug in transit is not accom- panied by an export authorization or diversion certificate by reason of the fact that the drug comes from a country not a party to the Convention and the Superintendent has reasonable grounds for believing that such drug is being conveyed in an unlawful manner or for an unlawful purpose or is in course of transit for the purpose of being imported into another country in contravention of the laws of that country, it shaf be lawful for the Superintendent to seize and detain such drug.

(4) Where the dangerous drug brought into the Colony in transit is landed, or transhipped in the Colony, it shall remain under the control of the Superintendent and shall be moved only under and in accordance with a removal licence granted in pursuance of section 7 hereof.

(5) Nothing in this section contained shall be deemed to apply to any dangerous drug in transit by post or in transit by air if the aircraft passes over the Colony without landing, or to such quantities of dangerous drugs as may, bonâ fide, reasonably form part of the medical stores of any ship or aircraft.

Removal

licences for dangerous drugs in transit.

Schedule,

form D.

7.-(1) No person shall remove any dangerous drug from the conveyance by which it is brought into the Colony in transit, or in any way move any such drug in the Colony at any time after removal from such conveyance, except under and in accordance with a licence (in the form D set out in the Schedule hereto and in this Ordinance referred to as a "removal licence") issued by the Superintendent.

(2) No removal licence for the transfer of any such drug to any conveyance for removal out of the Colony shall be issued unless and until a valid and subsisting export authorization or diversion certificate relating to it is produced to the Superintendent; save that where the drug has come from a country not a party to the Convention this sub-section shall not apply.

(3) The provisions of this section shall not apply to dangerous drugs in transit by post.

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