OPIUM.
No. 30 of 1923.
2775
5.—(1) No person shall have in his possession, or attempt to obtain possession of, or buy or sell, or supply or procure, or offer to supply or procure, or otherwise deal in or offer to deal in, any raw opium: Provided that this section shall not apply to any raw opium which is excluded from the operation of section 4 (1).
(2) The onus shall lie on any person who seeks to bring himself within the proviso to sub-section (1).
6.—(1) No master of any ship shall allow any raw opium to be removed from his ship except on production of, and in accordance with, a removal or export permit issued by the Superintendent.
(2) No person shall move any raw opium except under and in accordance with a removal or export permit issued by the Superintendent: Provided that this sub-section shall not apply to any raw opium which is excluded from the operation of section 4 (1) and which has not been removed from the ship on which it was imported.
7.—(1) Removal and export permits may be in Forms Nos. 2 and 3 respectively in the First Schedule.
(2) Subject to the provisions of section 4 (4) and (5), the issue of every removal and export permit shall be in the absolute discretion of the Superintendent, who may impose any conditions that he may think fit.
8. The Superintendent shall furnish the master of every ship carrying raw opium for export with a memorandum of raw opium containing the particulars set forth in Form No. 4 in the First Schedule, and no ship carrying raw opium shall depart from the Colony without such memorandum: Provided that this section shall not apply to any raw opium which is excluded from the operation of section 4 (1) and which has not been removed from the ship on which it was imported.
PART III.
PREPARED OPIUM.
9. The exclusive right of preparing opium and of selling prepared opium in the Colony is vested in the person for the time being lawfully performing the duties of Superintendent.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.