OPIUM.

No. 23 of 1909.

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British Colony from any of the provisions of this Ordinance. The name and description of any medicine so exempted shall be published in the Gazette.

57. The Governor shall establish one or more bonded warehouses for the use of dealers in morphine and compounds of opium for morphine and all such morphine and compounds of opium imported for exportation and not for use or sale in the Colony, and shall be stored in such warehouse or warehouses.

58. The Governor-in-Council may make regulations with regard to the storage and removal of morphine and compounds of opium in and from such warehouses, to the payment of charges for storage therein and to such other purposes as the Governor-in-Council may deem desirable.

PART IV.

GENERAL.

59. The Governor may appoint, in form 1 in schedule B, such agents or servants of the opium farmer or other persons as may be approved of by him to act as excise officers under this Ordinance, and may at any time revoke such appointment.

60. Every person who assumes, without lawful authority, to act as an excise officer shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding 100 dollars.

61. The name and address of every excise officer shall be posted in a conspicuous place at the Police Court.

62. Every excise officer shall be supplied with a badge bearing such sign or 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.

The badge shall be worn outside the sleeve of every excise officer detailed for the searching of persons on public wharves or for...

* As amended by No. 50 of 1911 and No. 12 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 and No. 12 of 1912.

As amended by No. 12 of 1912.

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