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No. 101.
Resolation made by the Legistative Council under Section 3 of the Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1913, (Ordinance No. 2 of 1913), this 10th day of April, 1913.
Whereas, by the provisions of Sub-section (e) of Section 3 of the Opium Amendment Ordinauce, 1913, the Opium Ordinance, 1909, was amended by, inter alia, the repeal of Section 12 of the said Ordinance and the substitution of a new Section 12 therefor:
And Whereas by the provisions of Sub-section (4) of the new Section 12 aforesaid it was provided that—
"No person shall export or aid or abet the exportation of any raw opium from the Colony or the waters thereof, if such exportation shall have been noti- fed in the Gazette in pursuance of any resolution of the Legislative Coun- cil as being illegal."
Now it is hereby resolvel that the exportation of Persian Opium to any port other than the port of London or a part of the Island of Formosa shall, after the expiration of one week from the date of this resolution, be illegal and it is further hereby resolved that a notification shall be made in the next issue of the Government Gazette accordingly.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
10th April, 1913.
R. H. CROFTON,
Clerk of Councils.