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5 The name and address of every Excise Officer shall be posted in a conspicuous place at the Police Court.
Posting of name, etc., of Excise Officer.
6. Every Excise Officer shall be supplied with a badge bearing such mark of office as may be directed by the Governor; and, when acting against any person under this Ordinance, every Excise Officer shall declare his office, and produce to the person against whom he acts his said badge.
Badge of Excise Officer.
7. Every Police officer when acting under this Ordinance, if not in uniform, shall declare his office, and produce to the person against whom he acts such badge as the Captain Superintendent of Police may direct Police officers to carry when on secret or special service.
Exhibition of badge by Police officers.
8.(1.) Any Excise Officer who takes any bribe shall, on summary conviction, be liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding six months.
Punishment of Excise Officer taking bribe, etc.
(2) Any Excise Officer who does not, on ceasing to be an Excise Officer, return to the Opium Farmer his uniform or accoutrements, badge or licence, shall, on summary conviction, be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars.
Importation, etc., of Opium.
9.(1.) No person, except the Opium Farmer, his licensees, and persons duly authorized 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 the hand of the Opium Farmer.
(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.
Ord. 16 of 1909 Sect.
(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 cooking or of the smoking of opium on his own premises (the burden of proof whereof shall lie on such person), and such dross shall in no case exceed two taels in weight: Provided that when any person has in his possession any such dross in excess of two taels weight, on giving notice thereof to the Dross Farmer, the Dross Farmer shall purchase the same at a fair and reasonable rate.
(1) No person, except the Opium Farmer, shall prepare opium in the Colony.
Unlicensed preparation of opium.