This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government
CHINA TRADE.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[37494]
No. 1.
[October 28.]
SECTION 2.
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Sir,
Local Government Board to Foreign Office.--(Received October 28.)
Whitehall, October 27, 1908.
I AM directed by the Local Government Board to state that they have received, through the Board of Trade, a copy of Sir F. Campbell's letter of the 10th instant to the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, transmitting copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Minister at Peking requesting to be furnished with copies of any Acts or Regulations governing the import, sale, &c., of opium and morphia in the United Kingdom.
I am to state, for the information of the Secretary of State, that, as regards the sale of these drugs, the law with which the Board are concerned is contained in sections 4-7 of "The Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1875.” As regards preparation of these drugs, I am to refer to the British Pharmacopoeia, and in this connection I am to draw attention to the case of White v. Bywater (1887) L.R., 19 Q.B.D., 582.
At the same time I am to point out that, as opium and morphia are poisons, the provisions of the Poisons Act apply to them, and I am to suggest that the Foreign Office should communicate with the Privy Council Office, as the Department which administers that Act.
&c.
I am,
(Signed)
JOHN LITHIBY.
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