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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 24, 1930.
HONG KONG.
No. 3 or 1930.
I assent.
L.S.
C. CLEMENTI,
Governor.
Short title. Ordinance No. 30 of 1923. Ordinance No. 7 of 1924.
Amendment
of Ordinance No. 30 of 1923,
s. 2 (1) ().
Amendment of Ordinance
No. 30 of 1923,
s. 2 (1) (@).
Amendment
of Ordinance
No. 30 of 1923, s. 4 (1) as enacted by Ordinance No. 7 of 1924, s. 2.
24th January, 1930.
An Ordinance to amend further the Opium
Ordinance, 1923.
[24th January, 1930.]
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, 1930; and the Opium Ordinance, 1923, the Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1924, and this Ordi- nance, may be cited together as the Opium Ordinances, 1923-1930.
2. Paragraph (6) of section 2 (1) of the Opium Ordi- nance, 1923, is repealed and the following paragraph is substituted therefor :-
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(b) "To export
ineans to carry or other- wise despatch out of the Colony or to cause to be carried or despatched out of the Colony and includes the conveyance of opium out of the Colony by transit mail or any other mail and the carriage out of the Colony of opium which was carried into the Colony by water or by air and which is carried out of the Colony on the same ship or aircraft on which it was carried into the Colony with or with- out any landing or transhipment.
3. Paragraph (d) of section 2 (1) of the Opium Ordi- nance, 1923, is repealed and the following paragraph is substituted therefor :-
(d) "To import" means to carry or other- wise despatch into the Colony or to cause to be carried or otherwise despatched into the Colony and includes the conveyance of opium into the Colony by transit mail or any other mail and the carriage by water or by air into the Colony of opium which is intended to be carried out of the Colony on the same ship or aircraft on which it was carried into the Colony with or without any landing or tran- shipment.
4. Section 4 (1) of the Opium Ordinance, 1923, as enacted by section 2 of the Opium Amendment Ordi- nance, 1924, is amended by the insertion of the words "and whether it is intended that it should be imported into the Colony or not," immediately after the words "in existence or not ".