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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 6, 1935.
(3) The Governor in Council may by Order apply the provisions of this Ordinance, with such modifications as may be specified in the Order, to any of the following drugs, that is to say, methylmorphine (commonly known as codeine), ethylmorphine (commonly known as dionin) and their respective salts.
21.-(1) No person shall cultivate the plant known as Special cannabis sativa.
provisions as to cannabis
(2) No person shall have in his possession, otherwise sativa. than in transit, any specimen or any quantity of the plant known as cannabis sativa or any portion of such plant.
(3) When in transit, the plant known as cannabis sativa. and the resin obtained from the said plant or from any part of the said plant, and any preparation of which such resin forms the base, and any preparation or mixture containing the said resin, shall be subject to all the restrictions imposed by sections 6, 7, 8 and 9 upon dangerous drugs in transit through the Colony.
(4) No person shall, whether on his own behalf or on behalf of any other person, whether such other person be in the Colony or not, buy, sell, supply, procure, or offer to supply or procure, from, to or for any other person, whether such other person be in the Colony or not, or in any way deal in or with or offer to deal in, or pretend to deal in, or import or export, or do any act preparatory to or for the purpose of importing or exporting, the plant known as cannabis sativa, or the resin obtained from the said plant or from any part of the said plant, or any preparation of which such resin forms the base, or any preparation or mixture containing the said resin, whether the goods in question be in the Colony or elsewhere, and whether they be ascertained or appropriated or in existence or not, and whether it be intended that they should be imported into the Colony or not: Provided that this sub-section shall not apply to the extracts and tinctures of Indian hemp referred to in section 3 (1).
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22. If the Governor in Council thinks fit to declare that Power to a finding with respect to any preparation containing any of exclude the drugs to which this Ordinance applies has in pursuance preparations of Article 8 of the Geneva Convention, 1925, been com- municated by the Council of the League of Nations to the 15 & 16 Geo. parties to the said Convention the provisions of this Ordinance 5, c. 74, s. 5. shall as from such date as may be specified in the declaration cease to apply to the preparation specified therein.
the Repeal of
23. The Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, 1923, Dangerous Drugs Amendment Ordinance, 1928 and the Ordinances Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, 1932, are repealed.
No. 22 of
1923, No. 4
of 1928, and No. 31 of 1932.
24. This Ordinance shall not come into operation until Commence- such date as the Governor shall appoint by Proclamation. ment. Different dates may be so appointed for different provisions 22 Geo. 5 of this Ordinance and in relation to different countries.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong this 5th day of September, 1935.
c. 15, s. 5(3).
H. R. BUTTERS,
Deputy Clerk of Councils.
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