Enclosure 2.
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PREC(REG)5 Jul 7
CONDITIONS TO BE ENDORSED ON AN OPIUM DIVAN LICENCE.
1. Whenever property, of which the owner is not known to the licensed keeper, shall be found in an Opium Divan, the licensed keeper shall forthwith report to the nearest Police Station that such property has been found, shall furnish full particulars of such property to a Police Officer and shall detain such property in safe custody till it is handed over to a Police Officer.
2. Every licensed keeper of an Opium Divan shall keep ready for immediate use such number of sand buckets or other like appliance for the extinction of fire as the Superintendent of the Fire Brigade shall consider sufficient in each case.
3. Any death which occurs in a licensed Opium Divan must be reported at once by the licensed keeper either at the Registrar General's Office or at a Police Station.
4. All Sanitary Bye-laws relating to Opium Divans in force for the time being or from time to time must be observed under the penalties therein provided.
The attention of Licensees is specially directed to the following requirements of the law :—
(1) Any death which occurs in a licensed Opium Divan must be registered at the Registrar General's Office within 48 hours. (Ordinance 16 of 1896, s. 11.)
(2) No person other than an adult male is permitted to smoke opium or dross opium in an Opium Divan. (Ordinance of 189..., s. ...)
(3) No female, not being the Opium Divan keeper or the wife or child of such keeper, is permitted or suffered to enter or remain in an Opium Divan. (Ordinance of 189..., s. ...)
(4) No armed person is permitted to be in an Opium Divan. (Ordinance of 189...)
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