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Default in payment for farm, resale.
[2 of 58, s. 4.]
Sub-licences. [2 of 58, s. 3.]
Sales.
Certificate.
[2 of 58, s. 7, 7 of 79, s. 3, 4 of 83, s. 1.]
Expiry of certificate.
[7 of 79, s. 4, 4 of 83, s. 3.]
Notice of expiration of farm.
[1 of 79. s. 3.]
ORDINANCE No. 1 OF 1884.
Opium.
14. If the consideration money for any farm created under this Ordinance, or any instalment thereof, be not paid within one month next after the day appointed for the payment thereof, the said farm shall become and be absolutely null and void; and, over and above all other such liabilities as are hereinbefore or hereinafter created, the farmer shall thereupon become and be liable to make good to the Government all losses or expenses incurred by, or by reason of such default in payment or any resale or regrant of such privilege which the Governor in Council may thereupon make, and to make which he is hereby authorised.
15. The opium farmer, if any, or in default of any such farmer, the Governor in Council may at his discretion grant licences to proper persons, authorising them to boil and prepare opium, and to sell and retail opium so boiled and prepared; but subject to such conditions as shall from time to time be by the Governor in Council regulated and previously notified in the Gazette. And the provisions of section 12 of this Ordinance as to a scale of fines for breaches of regulations made under this Ordinance shall apply equally to all breaches of regulations made and notified as aforesaid with regard to such licences for the boiling and preparation of opium.
16. It shall be the duty of every person selling or retailing prepared opium, not being dross opium, under this Ordinance, to deliver therewith a certificate in English and Chinese, stamped with the stamp used by him in carrying on his business, specifying the amount so sold; which certificate shall be evidence of the facts therein stated, and shall not be transferable, and shall be in one of the forms provided in Schedules B or C to this Ordinance, according as there is or is not, at the time of issuing such certificate, an opium farmer under this Ordinance. Such certificates shall be issued from books provided with counterfoils, and both the certificates and the counterfoils shall bear corresponding and consecutive printed numbers.
17. No certificate so granted by the opium farmer or by any licensee under him shall be valid after noon of the third day from the date of the expiration of such opium farmer's privilege.
18. Every opium farmer shall, one month before his farm expires, give public notice, in the form provided by Schedule D hereto, that the said farm is to expire on the day to be named, and that no boiled or prepared opium purchased from such farmer, or from any licensee of such
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