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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3RD OCTOBER, 1891.
licence, shall on summary conviction be liable to a penalty
not exceeding one hundred dollars.
9. (1.) No person except the opium farmer, his li- censees, and persons duly authorised by him in writing shall bring into the Colony, or have in his possession within the same any prepared opium not being dross opium without having a valid certificate under section 12.
(2.) No person shall bring into the Colony or have in his possession within the same, any dross opium without the knowledge and consent of the dross farmer.
(3.) No person except a dross farmer or a duly licensed person under this Ordinance shall, within the Colony, collect dross or have in his possession without the knowledge and consent of the dross farmer or his licensees any dross except such as may be the result of his own smoking or of the smoking of opium on his own promises (the burden of proof' whereof shall lic upon such person), and such dross shall in no case exceed two taels in weight.
10. (1.) No person except the opium farmer shall within
the Colony prepare opium.
(2.) No person except the opium farmer and any duly liccused person under this Ordinance shall sell or offer or expose for sale any prepared opium). (8.) No person except the dross farmer and any duly licensed person under this Ordinance shall den! in or prepare dross opium. Provided that no inedical practitioner, chemist or druggist, not being a Chinese, or being such and having a European or American diploma, shall be prevented from proparing or selling opium bonâ fide for medicinal purposes and provided that no trader in opium shall be prevented from bona fide testing samples of opium obtained in accordance with the provisions of Ordinance No. 22 of 1887 or any Ordinance umending the same and keeping the same for the purposes. of his trade the burden of proof whereof shall in each case be upon any person alleging the same in his defence.
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11. (1.) No person shall open or carry on any divan of other place for the smoking of opium or dross opium without a licence in such form and upon such conditions as may be approved by the Governor in Concil.
(2.) Åll licensed divans shall be open to the inspection of the Opium Farmer and all Excise Officers at all times of night and day.
12. (1.) Every person selling prepared opium, not being dross opium, shall deliver therewith a certificate in Chinese or English specifying the date of the sale, the name of the purchaser, and the quantity sold.
(2.) Where the opium is not intended for export the certificate shall be in the form B. in the schedule hereto, shall be stamped by the seller with the stamp used by him in carrying on his business, and shall be evidence of the facts therein stated, and shall not be transferable.
Import and possession of opium.
(1 of 89, 2
Unlicensed
preparation,
we.
(1 of Яt, 3.)
Unlicensed divans. (1 of 84.)
Sale of prepared opium. (1 of 84, 16.1
Private text.
(3.) If any person is charged with the possession of Certificate.
prepared opium without a valid certificate, he shall not be entitled to produce or put in evidence or cause to be produced or put in evidence any certificate, us covering the opium in respect of which he is charged, prior in date to the last certificate granted to him, unless he has received permission from the opium former to keep or store opium, which permission shall appear on the certificate produced or put in evidence. (4.). When prepared opium is sold for export, the cer- tificate required by this section shall be in the form in the schedule hereto, and shall be delivered up by the shipper, along with the prepared opium to which it refers, to the master of the ship, or to the supercargo or other person in whose immediate possession such opium is to be on board of such ship, who shall retain such certificate so long as the ship shall remain in the waters of the Colony.
Sale for export
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