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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
Draft Bill.
No. S. 72.-The following bill, which will be introduced at the next meeting of the Legislative Council, is published for general information:-
C.S.O. 2535/20.
[No. 8-7.3.28.—2.]
A BILL
Short title.
Amendment
of Ordinance No. 22 of
1923,
8. 2 (1) (a).
Amendment of Ordinance No. 22 of 1923,
8. 2 (1) (b).
Amendment
of Ordinance No. 22 of 1923, s. 2 (1).
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend the Dangerous Drugs
Ordinance, 1923.
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, 1928.
2. Paragraph (a) of section 2 (1) of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, 1923, is repealed and the following paragraph is substituted therefor :--
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(a) "To export means to carry or other- wise despatch out of the Colony or to cause to be carried or otherwise despatched out of the Colony and includes the conveyance of things out of the Colony by transit mail or any other mail and the carriage out of the Colony of things which were carried into the Colony by water or by air and which are carried out of the Colony on the same ship or aircraft on which they are carried into the Colony with or without any landing or transhipment.
3. Paragraph (b) of section 2 (1) of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, 1923, is repealed and the following paragraph is substituted therefor :-
(b) To import means to carry or other- wise bring into the Colony or to cause to be carried or otherwise brought into the Colony and includes the conveyance of things into the Colony by transit mail or any other mail and the carriage by water or by air into the Colony of things which are intended to be carried out of the Colony on the same ship or aircraft on which they were carried into the Colony with or without any landing or tran- shipment.
4. Section 2 (1) of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, 1923, is amended by the addition of the following defini- tions at the end thereof :-
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(ƒ) “Coca leaves " means the leaves of any Geo. 5, c. 74, plant of the genus of the erythroxylaccac s. 1 (2).
from which cocaine can be extracted either directly or by chemical transformation.
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(g) "Indian hemp" means the dried flower- Geo. 5, c. 74, ing or fruiting tops of the pistillate plant s. 1 (2).
known as cannabis sativa from which the resin has not been extracted, by whatever name such tops are called.
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(4) Medicinal opium means raw opium Geo. 5, c. 74, which has undergone the processes necessary to adopt it for medicinal use in accordance with the requirements of the British Pharmo- copoeia, whether it is in the form of powder or is granulated or is in any other form, and whether it is or is not mixed with neutral substances.
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