The amendments relate to matters of detail and do not involve new principle of importance.
The Ordinance consolidates three Principal Ordinances, the Raw Opium Ordinance, 1867, the Prepared Opium Ordinance, 1891, and the Morphia Ordinance, 1899, and the several Ordinances which have from time to time been passed by way of amendment thereto.
The Ordinance contains a new definition of "Prepared Opium" adopted from the Straits Ordinance, and the definition of "Compound of Opium" has also been revised. The definitions of "Opium Dross" and "Raw Opium" are new. There is a slight amendment in the definition of "chest of opium". The definition of "Colony" in Ordinance No.8 of 1891 has been extended so as to include the New Territories.
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