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No. 30 of 1923.
[s. 2 contd.]
(f) "Opium divan" means any place opened, kept, or used-
(i) for the sale of prepared opium to be smoked in such place; or
(ii) for the smoking of prepared opium where a fee or its equivalent is charged for such smoking or where any benefit or advantage whatever, direct or indirect, is derived by the keeper of such place in consequence of the smoking of prepared opium in such place.
(g) "Opium dross" means the residuum produced by smoking prepared opium.
(h) Any opium, implement, or other thing shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be deemed to be in the possession of any person if he has such opium, implement, or thing in possession, custody or control, by himself or by any other person.
(i) "Person," except so far as relates to the imposition of the penalty of imprisonment, includes a body corporate and a firm.
(j) "Prepared opium" includes every preparation of opium, and every substance in which opium forms an ingredient, which preparation or substance is used or intended to be used for smoking, or for use as a substitute for smoking opium.
(k) "Preparing opium" includes-
(i) every act in the process or intended process of converting opium, or any substance or solution in which opium forms an ingredient, into prepared opium, and
(ii) the subjecting of opium, or of any substance or solution in which opium forms an ingredient, to any degree of artificial heat, for any purpose whatsoever.
(l) "Raw opium" means any kind of opium not prepared for smoking, chewing, swallowing or injecting and includes the leaves or wrappings in which raw opium has been wrapped, but does not include opium dross.
(m) "Ship" includes every description of vessel used in navigation or for the carriage or storage of goods.