2778
Exportation
of prepared opium prohibited.
No. 30 of 1923.
OPIUM.
20. No person shall export, or do any act preparatory to or for the purpose of exporting, any prepared opium: Provided that this section shall not be construed as applying to the possession by a passenger from the Colony to any place not within the Colony of a quantity of prepared opium, to be used for personal consumption on the voyage, not exceeding five mace for every day of duration of the voyage.
Ships prohibited from being used in smuggling opium.
Opium not on ship's manifest.
PART IV.
GENERAL. Ships.
21.-(1) No ship shall be used for the importation, landing, removal, carriage, conveyance, storage or exportation of any opium in contravention of this Ordinance.
(2) An amount of any such opium found on board any such ship and exceeding—
(a) in the case of any ship of sixty tons net register tonnage and upwards, fifty taels in weight; or,
(b) in the case of any ship under sixty tons net register tonnage, twenty-five taels in weight;
shall be deemed evidence of the unlawful use of such ship.
(3) If any ship is proved to have been so used, the owners, agents and master shall be deemed to have contravened the provisions of sub-section (1) unless it is proved, to the satisfaction of the magistrate, that every reasonable precaution has been taken to prevent the unlawful use of such ship, and that none of the officers or of their servants or of the crew of such ship were implicated therein.
22.-(1) No person shall bring or have in his possession on board any ship any opium, other than prepared opium not exceeding the quantity specified in section 20, unless the same is entered on the manifest of the ship.
(2) The master of such ship may seize any such opium as aforesaid found on board his ship which is not entered on the manifest, and may retain the same in his possession until he can deliver it to a police officer.
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