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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
No. S. 261. The following Bills were read a first time at a Meeting of the Council held on the 3rd October, 1918:-
A BILL
Short title and con- struction.
Ordinance No. 4 of 1914. Ordinance No. 27 of 1917.
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend the Opium Ordinance,
1914, and the Opium Ordinance, 1917.
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 Opium Ordi- nance, 1918, and shall be read and construed as one with the Opium Ordinance, 1914, and with the Opium Ordinance, 1917, and the said Ordinances and this Ordinance may be cited together as the Opium Ordi- nances, 1914 to 1918.
Amendment
of Ordinance No. 4 of 1914, s. 46 (2).
Amendment
of Ordinance No. 4 of
1914, s. 49 (2).
Amendment
of Ordinance No. 4 of 1914, s. 57.
Amendment
of Ordinance
No. 27 of 1917, s. 2.
Possession of Government opium labels and wrappers detached from the
2. Sub-section (2) of section 46 of the Opium Ordi- nance, 1914, is amended by the substitution of the words net register tonnage" for the word "burden" in para- graphs (a) and (b) thereof.
3. Sub-section (2) of section 49 of the Opium Ordi- nance, 1914, is amended by the insertion of the words "net register tonnage" between the word "tons” and the word "in" in the eighth line thereof.
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4. Section 57 of the Opium Ordinance, 1914, is amended by the substitution of the letter "a" for the figure 1 in the ninth line thereof, of the letter "b" for the figure "2" in the eleventh line thereof, and of the letter for the figure "3" in the thirteenth line thereof.
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5. Section 2 of the Opium Ordinance, 1917, is amended by the insertion of the word "so" between the word "mark" and the word "resembling" in the third line thereof, and by the insertion of the words as to constitute a colourable imitation thereof" between the words "dross opium and the words
or has in the fifth line thereof.
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6. Every person who, without lawful authority or excuse, has in his possession any label or wrapper which was issued by the Superintendent affixed to any receptacle containing Government prepared opium or Government dross opium, and which has been detached from such Government receptacle, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a receptacles.
fine not exceeding five thousand dollars and to imprison- ment for any period not exceeding twelve months.
Presumption.
7. Every person who is proved to have had in his possession or under his control any box, chest, package, or other article whatsoever containing opium, shall, until the contrary be proved, be presumed to have known that the said opium was contained in such box, chest, package or other article.
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