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import, or aid or abet in the importation into the Colony or into the waters thereof, any raw opium the importation of which into China' shall have been notified in the Gazette as being "illegal". It had already been notified in the Gazette that the importation of Per- sian and Turkish opium into China after the 1st. January 1912 had been prohibited by the Chinese Government, and the European unoffi- cial members were opposed to the sub-section on the ground that there was a perfectly legitimate trade in the Colony in Persian Opium. The Chinese unofficial members were anxious to apply the provisions on the Ordinance to Persian and Turkish as well as to uncertified Indian Opium. The Government therefore agreed to an amendment of the sub-section. As a result of this amendment as soon as the Ordinance was passed a resolution, was passed unanimously authorising a noti- fication in the Gazette to the effect that the importation uncerti- fiad raw Indian opium was illegal. The question of Persian and
im Turkish opium is under consideration and it is not probable that a Second Resolution dealing with such opium will be introduced at a
later date.
Attorney General.
No. 254.
Enclosure 3.
Resolution made by the Legislative Conneil under Section 3 of the Opium Ordinance, 1909, (No. 23 of 1909), as amended by Section 2 of the Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1911, (Ordinance No. 39 of 1911), this 31st day of August, 1911.
Whereas by the provisious of Section 3 of the Opium Ordinance, 1909, as amended by Section 2 of the Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1911, it is provided as follows" No person shall import, or aid or abet the importation of any raw opium into the Colony or into the waters thereof, if such importation shall have been notified in the Gazette in pur- suance of any resolution of the Legislative Council as being illegal";
It is therefore hereby resolved that a Notification shall be made in the next issuefo, the Government Gazette that the importation of any kind of raw Indian Opium except Opium covered by Export Permits from the Government of India to the effect that it has been declared for shipment to or consumption in China is illegal.
This Resolution shall not apply to any bond jide shipments of nucertificated Indian Opium which have been made from Calcutta or Bombay by a vessel sailing prior to 21st August, 1911, and which have not been landed at any port after such shipment.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
31st August, 1911.
C. CLEMENTI,
Clerk of Councils.