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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
No. 8. 241.—The following Bills were read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 28th July, 1938:-
C.S.O. 2531/21.
A BILL
[No. 2-12.4.38.-3.]
Short title.
Amendment
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance,
1935.
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 Dangerous Drugs Amendment Ordinance, 1938.
2. Sub-section (2) of section 17 of the Dangerous Drugs of Ordinance Ordinance, 1935, is amended by the substitution of the words "on indictment" for the words "or indictment" in the first line of paragraph (a) thereof.
No. 35 of 1935, s. 17 (2).
New
section 21A
added to Ordinance
No. 35 of 1935.
Special provision for the prohibition
of heroin divans, storage places and factories, and for the responsi- bility of landlords in respect thereof.
3. The Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, 1935, is amended by the insertion of the following new section immediately after section 21 thereof :-
21A. (1) No person shall
(a) have in his possession any pipe fit and intended for the smoking of heroin: The burden of proof that any pipe fit for the smoking of heroin is not intended for such smoking shall lie on the defendant;
(b) smoke or consume any heroin in any heroin divan; (c) keep, manage or act or assist in the management of any heroin divan or of any place in which heroin is unlawfully stored or manufactured:
(d) being the tenant, lessee, occupier or person in charge of any place, permit such place or any part thereof to be used as a heroin divan or for the unlawful storage or manufacture of heroin;
(e) being the lessor or landlord of any place, or the agent of such lessor or landlord, let the same with the know- ledge that such place or some part thereof is to be used as a heroin divan or for the unlawful storage or manufacture of heroin, or consent to the use at any time of such place or any part thereof as a heroin divan or for the unlawful storage or manufacture of heroin.
(2) In and for the purposes of this section-
(a) "place" means any house, room, agency, boat, vehicle, vessel or any erection movable or otherwise or any spot on land or water;
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