563
No.
Section 11.
FORM No. 4.
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OFFICE, Hongkong,....... .........191
(Opium Ordinance No.
of 1914.)
Memo of Raw Opium for export per S.S.
OD
Permit No.
Marks.
Govt. No. of Description No. Chests. of Opium.
Exporter. Destination.
Superintendent.
Section 16.
FORM No. 5.
of 1914.)
(Opium Ordinance No.
SIR, I hereby certify that I have received into my Licensed.
Warehouse
Importing Ship and Date of Arrival.
the following Raw Opium
situated at
Nett
Marks.
Govt. Cert. No. No.
Descrip- tion of Opium.
No. of Weight Person Chests. of each storing. Chest.
Date.........
1
Licensee,
Objects and Reasons.
It having been decided that the Government shall, on the expiration on the 1st day of March, 1914, of the exist- ing Agreement with the Opium Farmer assume entire control and management of the opium business hitherto leased out to private individuals, it has become desirable to re-east the law which at present obtains relative to opium in order to adapt it to the altered conditions which will ensue in consequence of the change. The present law is contained in the Opium Ordinance, 1909, as printed in the Revised Edition of the Ordinances as amended by the Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1913.
The existing Ordinance, after defining the meaning of certain terms, is divided into four main parts: firstly, that which deals with Raw Opium; secondly, that which deals which Prepared Opium and Dross Opium; thirdly, that which deals with Morphine and Compounds of Morphine; and lastly, that which deals with the administrative and legal procedure and those penal provisions which are necessary for the execution or enforcement of the law. Some considerable portion of the existing law deals with the establishment and maintenance of the relations between Government and the Opium Farmer in connection with his exclusive privileges.
Broadly speaking the present Bill follows the existing law in arrangement and in principle but besides omitting much of the existing Ordinance which relate solely to the aights enjoyed by the Opium Farmer, it introduces certain emplifications and alterations to which it is necessary to all specific attention.