Short title.
Amendment
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A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 9 of 1910 as incorporated in the Pharmacy Ordi- nance, 1908.,
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:--
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the l'harmacy Ordi- nance, 1914, and shall be read and construed as one with the Pharmacy Ordinanco, 1908, and with Ordinance No. 9 of 1910 as incorporated in the Pharmacy Ordinanco, 1908, and this Ordinance and the said Ordinances may by cited together as the Pharmacy Ordinances, 1908-1914.
2. Ordinance No. 9 of 1910 as incorporated in the Phar- of Ordinance mary Ordinance, 1908, is hereby amended as follows:--
No. 9 of
1910.
Amendment
of section 3 sub-section (1).
Repent of
section 3
sub-section
(2).
Re-number- ing section
4 as section 3
sub-section (2).
Addition of
new section
1.
Search of
dwelling house, shop, place or ship without warrant by European officer for poison illegally therein in cases of urgency.
Amendinent
of section 6.
Addition of new sub- section to section 6.
Certificate
of Govern- ment Analyst conclusive evidence of market value of poison.
"officer of (a.) by the deletion of the words
police" in the 9th line of sub-section (1) of section 3, and by the substitution therefor of the words " police or revenue officer ".
(b.) by the deletion of sub-section (2) of section 3.
(c.) by re-numbering section 4 as sub-section (2)
of section 3.
(d) by the insertion of the following new section
4 :-
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4. Whenever it appears to any Euro- pean polico or revenue officer that there is dwe!- reasonable cause to believe that in any
ling house, shop, or other building or place, "or on board any ship (not being or having "the status of a ship of war), within the "Colony, there is concealed or deposi ed avy
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poison as defined by section 2 'u respect of *which an offence has been committed against "Ordinance No. 12 of 1908 or any .egulations "made thereunder, and he shall have reason- "able ground for believing that by reason of "the delay in obtaining a search warrant the poisou is likely to be removed, the said officer in virtue of his office may exercise in; upon and in respect of such dwelling house, shop or other building or place, or on board any ship, all the powers mentioned in the preceding section in as full and ample a "manner as if he were empowered to do so by "warrant issued under the said section,"
(e.) by the deletion of the words "or in default of payment" in the 8.h line of sub-section (1) of section 6 and by the substitution therefor of the words "or ten times the market value of the poison in respect of which the offence was committed and ".
(f) by the addition to section 6 of the following
new sub-section :-
"(4.) A certificate signed by the Gov- "ernment Analyst shall be conclusive evi- "dence in any proceedings under and for any purpose in connection with this Ordinance "of the market value of any poison in respect "of which any offence has occurred."