OPIUM.
No. 30 of 1923.
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No. 30 of 1923.
An Ordinance to amend and consolidate the law relating to opium.
No. 30 of 1923.
[31st December, 1923.]
Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
PART I
PRELIMINARY.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Opium Ordinance, 1923.
2.-(1) In this Ordinance,
(a) "Divan keeper" means the occupier or person having the use temporarily of any opium divan, or any person having or appearing to have the care or management of such place, and also any person who acts in any manner assisting in conducting the business of any such place or keeping watch in or about the same.
(b) "To export" means to carry out of the Colony or to cause to be carried out of the Colony and includes the carriage out of the Colony of opium which was carried into the Colony by water and which is, with or without any landing or transhipment, carried out of the Colony on the same ship on which it was carried into the Colony.
(c) "Implement" means any vessel, utensil, instrument, or other thing which has been used, or which is probably intended to be used, for containing opium, or for preparing or aiding in preparing any opium, or for smoking opium.
(d) "To import" means to carry into the Colony or to cause to be carried into the Colony and includes the carriage by water into the Colony of opium which is intended to be carried out of the Colony on the same ship on which it was carried into the Colony, with or without any landing or transhipment.
(e) "Opium" includes raw opium, prepared opium, and opium dross, and every substance in which raw opium, prepared opium or opium dross forms an ingredient.
* All revenue officers appointed under this Ordinance have all the powers of a revenue officer under the Tobacco Ordinance, 1916. See No. 10 of 1916, s. 39 (6) (d)
† As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.