672 THE HONGKONG GOVT GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY 25TH AUGUST, 1897.
Offences
6. Any person who commits any of the following offences
and penalty. shall be liable, upon Summary Conviction, to a fine not
Regulations
Repeal of Sections 11 and 17 of Ordinance 21 of 1891.
Commence inent of Ordinance.
exceeding one hundred dollars, or to imprisonment, with or without hurd labour, for a period not exceeding three months:-
(a) Opens or carries on an Opium Divan without a
valid Licence; or
(b) Knowingly permits any person other than an adult male to smoke opium or dross opium in an Opium Divan; or
(e) Knowingly permits or suffers any female, not being the Opium Divan Keeper or the wife or chikt of such Keeper to enter or remain in an Opium Divan; or
(d) Knowingly permits any armed person to be in an
Opium Divan.
7. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, from time to time, to make and, when made, to ulter, add to, or revoke Regulations with regard to the licensing, manage- ment and classification of Opium Divans and as to the Fees to be paid in respect of such Licences, and to prescribe a seale of pecuniary penalties not execeding, in cach case, twenty-five dollars, for the breach of any such Regulations. Such Regulations shall not come into force until they are notified in the Gazette and, thereafter, such penalties may be coforced, summarily, before a Magistrate and, on con- viction for any breach of such Regulations the offender shall be liable, in default of payment, to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a period not exceeding one mouth, 8. Sections Eleven and Seventeen of the Principal Ordi- nance, are hereby repealed.
9. This Ordinance shall come into operation on the first day of March, 1898.
The fee payable for this Licence is $
OPIUM DIVAN LICENCE.
Under Ordinance No.
of 1897.
A.B. of
the
is hereby licensed to open and carry on
Prepared Opium
60 on the an Opium Divan for the smoking of
Dross Opiumi floor of the premises known as (6)
day of
189 to the
from
day of
189
This Licence is issued subject to the observance, by the Licensee. of all the conditions endorsed on this Licence and to his compliance with all the Laws and Regulations for the time being in force relating to Opium and Opium Divans.
This Licence may be cancelled at any time by the Colonial Secre- tary for any failure of such observance or compliance.
Dated the
day of
189
Colonial Secretary.
(a) As the case may be.
(b) Here insert the address.
Objects and Reasons,
It has been deemed desirable that, at the expiration of the present Opium Farm, in 1898, Opium Smoking Divans should be brought more under the direct control of the Government, and, with this object, this Ordinance requires every person who opens or carries on any such Divan to obtain a Licence from the Colonial Secretary, on which licence suitable conditions will be endorsed.
The Secretary of State, besides having approved of this requirement, has directed that persous other than adult males should be prohibited from smoking in divans, and that the admission of women, other than members of the keeper's family, should be forbidden, as is provided in the Ordinances in force in the Straits Settlements.
Section 6, which deals with offences, accordingly assi- milates the law of Hongkong to that of the Straits Sottioments.
Section 7 provides for the making of Regulations and their enforcement.
The Ordinance is not to come into force till 1st March, 1898, and will not therefore affect the present Farm.
W. Meigh GoODMAN,
Attorney General,