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8. Section 10 of the principal Ordinance provides that a certificate signed by the Superintendent as to the char- acter quantity or market value of any drug to which the Ordinance applies shall be conclusive evidence as to such character, quantity, or market value. It is difficult to see how under this section any particular certificate could be connected with the particular drugs which it was meant to cover, except of course by calling the Superintendent as a witness, and one object of the section was to avoid the necessity of calling him. Clause 10 of the bill endeavours to meet this difficulty by means of a statutory form of a certificate which can be connected, by means of the officer who takes the drugs to the Superintendent, with the drugs actually seized, and which can be connected, by means of the officer who receives the drugs from the Superintendem, with the drugs produced in Court. The new section 10 inserted in the principal Ordinance by clause 10 of the bill also provides that any such certificate purporting to be signed by the Superintendent shall until the contrary is proved he deemed to have been signed by him.
9. Clanse 11 of the bill adds three sections to the prin- cipal Ordinance These sections are referred to in para- graphs 3, 9 and 6, respectively, of the draft memorauðum.
10. Clause 12 of the bill amends the form of Import Certificate in the Schedule to the principal Ordinance in certain minor respects in order to make it agree with the form of Import Certificate annexed to the Geneva Con- vention.
11. Clause 13 of the bill contains the Superintendent's Certificate referred to in paragraph 8 above.
8th February, 1928.
J. H. KEMP,
Attorney General.