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No. 23 of 1909.
OPIUM.
Lapse of certificate.
*
Governor-in-Council to make regulations.
+
Regulations relating to fines.
§
Prohibition of opium divans.
Penalty.
Penalty for smoking in divan.
(5) When there is no opium farmer the certificate shall be in form 2 in schedule B.
(6) No person shall sell any prepared opium or dross opium to any female or to any person under 16 years of age.
40. No certificate granted by the opium farmer under section 39 or by any licensee under the opium farmer shall be valid after noon of the third day from the date of the expiration of such opium farmer's privilege.
Regulations.
41. The Governor-in-Council may make regulations for any of the following purposes:---
(a) to determine the quality of prepared opium and dross opium to be sold by the opium farmer or dross farmer or their licensees;
(b) to determine the packages and receptacles in which prepared opium and dross opium shall be sold to the public and the quantities to be contained therein;
(c) to prescribe the keeping of such books and registers and the making of such returns by the opium farmer or the dross farmer as may be considered necessary or desirable to permit of a thorough investigation being made by the Government of the manner in which the farm business is conducted and of the profits or losses arising therefrom.
42. The Governor-in-Council may also make regulations as to the fines for breaches of any conditions or regulations made under this Ordinance which shall be levied in the same manner as the fines imposed by this Ordinance.
Opium Divans.
43. No person shall open, keep or use any opium divan.
44. The keeper of an opium divan shall, on summary conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding 500 dollars.
45. Every person who in any opium divan smokes prepared opium or dross opium shall, on summary conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding 25 dollars.
* As amended by No. 12 of 1912.
+ As amended by No. 50 of 1911 and No. 13 of 1912.
§ As amended by No. 50 of 1911, No. 12 of 1912 and No. 13 of 1912.
As amended by No. 30 of 1911.