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Certain provisions of Ordinance No. 11 of 1844 as to the mode of granting licences, &c., not to apply to Chinese.
Superintendent of Police to grant licences to sell spirituous liquors to Chinese only.
Former opium regulations annulled.
Opium not to be retailed or prepared without a licence.
Prohibition against importation by unlicensed dealers.
Superintendent of Police may grant licences to retail or prepare opium.
Superintendent of Police may require licence holders to make certain returns, and may establish rules for the preservation of order in smoking divans.
Penalties for offences against licence.
ORDINANCE No. 4 of 1853.
Spirits-Opium.
1. So much of the said Ordinance No. 11 of 1844 as refers to the mode of granting licences, and as prohibits the sale of spirituous liquors where a retail shop for the sale of other articles is kept, shall not apply to Chinese licensed to retail spirituous liquors under this Ordinance.
2. Any Chinese requiring a licence to retail spirituous liquors to Chinese only may apply to the Superintendent of Police, or such other officer as the Governor may from time to time appoint for this purpose, who, on being satisfied that the applicant is a proper person to receive such licence and on payment of the established fee into the Colonial Treasury may grant a licence in the form laid down in schedule A, which licence shall not take effect until it has been countersigned by the Chief Magistrate.
3. The said regulations for the retail of opium, made on the 19th July, 1847, be and the same are hereby annulled.
4. If any person shall, without licence, sell or barter raw opium in any quantity less than one chest, or prepare opium in any quantity, or sell or barter prepared opium in any quantity, or keep a smoking divan, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars.
5. If any person not licensed to retail raw opium shall import into the Colony raw opium in smaller quantity than one chest, or receive into his possession any such raw opium so imported, or if any person not licensed to prepare opium, or to sell prepared opium shall import into the Colony prepared opium in any quantity, or receive into his possession any such prepared opium so imported, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars.
6. Any person requiring a licence to retail opium, or to prepare opium or to sell prepared opium, or to keep a smoking divan, may apply to the Superintendent of Police, or such other officer aforesaid, who, on being satisfied that the applicant is a proper person to receive such licence, and on payment of the established fee into the Colonial Treasury shall grant a licence in the form laid down in schedule B, which licence shall not take effect until countersigned by the Chief Magistrate.
7. The Superintendent of Police may require that all persons licensed hereunder exhibit in front of the premises licensed their names and the number and nature of their licence, in a form to be determined by him. He may also, by inserting a special clause in the licence, require all licensed persons to send in a monthly return of the quantities of opium or spirituous liquors retailed, sold or prepared by them. He may also insert in the licences for keeping smoking divans the hours during which the divans shall be open, and any other rules appearing to him necessary for the preservation of good order therein.
8. If any holder of a licence shall offend against the tenor of his licence he shall be liable to pay a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, and for a second offence the convicting Magistrate may in addition annul the licence.