1842

No. 23 of 1909.

OPIUM.

Compensa-

tion for unsuccessful search.

*

(a) attempts to commit any offence in contravention of this Ordi-

nance; or

(b) aids or abets any other person in any such offence or in the attempt to commit any such offence,

shall, on summary conviction, be liable to the same punishment and penalties as if he had been guilty of the actual offence.

Miscellaneous Provisions.

91. If any unsuccessful search for opium has been made under section 67 or section 68 by the request or at the instigation of the opium farmer, and there is no reason to suppose that any opium in contravention of this Ordinance has been thrown away or otherwise disposed of with a view to avoid detection, the opium farmer shall replace and repack any goods which may have been unpacked by reason of such search, and shall make good any damage which he may have caused thereby; and the amount of money claimed for any such damage shall be adjudicated upon by a Magistrate and No. 3 of 1890. shall be recoverable as a civil debt under the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890.

Prohibition of public

officer being interested in

farm.

92. Persons employed in any department of the public service, and persons in their employ, or any of them, are disqualified from becoming or being in any way possessed of or directly or indirectly interested in any privilege or licence under this Ordinance or the profits thereof, whether at law or in equity and whether in their own right respectively or in the right of another, and from suing for or in respect of or in any way enforcing the same.

[ss. 93, 94, rep. No. 12 of 1912.]

SCHEDULE A.

FORM No. 1. Certificate of Sale.

[s. 5.]

No.

Date, 19

Sold this day to

balls Bengal,

catties Malwa, or

to be

exported by him to

per ship

This certificate shall not be valid after noon of the

* As amended by No. 12 of 1912 and No. 13 of 1912.

Chop.

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