OPIUM.
(n) "Superintendent
Ports and Exports.
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means the Superintendent of Im-
Superin-
tendent.
(o) "Wharf" includes every place used as a landing place wharf, and every warehouse or place adjoining a landing place or used in connexion therewith.
(2) "Corresponding law" in this Ordinance means any law stated in a certificate purporting to be issued by or on behalf of the government of any place outside the Colony to be a law providing for the control and regulation in that country of the manufacture, sale, use, export and import of opium in accordance with the provisions of the International Opium Convention signed at the Hague on the 23rd day of January, 1912, and any statement in any such certificate as to the effect of the law mentioned in the certificate, or any statement in any such certificate that any facts constitute an offence against that law, shall be conclusive. Any such certificate shall be admitted in evidence upon production by or on behalf of the Superintendent in any proceeding.
3.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations for any of the following purposes :-
(a) to determine the prices at which prepared opium may be sold to the public;
(b) to regulate the licensing and management of places for the sale of prepared opium, and the licensing and control of the persons who are permitted to sell prepared opium;
(c) to prescribe the fees, if any, to be payable for licences, permits and authorities issuable under this Ordinance;
(d) to alter or add to any of the forms in the First Schedule:
(e) generally, to prohibit or control the importation, exportation, manufacture, sale, possession, movement, distribution, and smoking of opium, and the dealing in opium.
(2) All regulations made under this Ordinance shall be laid on the table of the Legislative Council at the first meeting thereof held after the publication in the Gazette of the making of such regulations, and if a resolution is passed at the first meeting of the Legislative Council held after such regulations have been laid on the table of the said Council resolving that any such regulation shall be rescinded,
Schedule.