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No. 227.
Resolution made by the Legistative Council under the provi- sions of Section 3 of the Opium Ordinance, 1900, (Ordinance No. 28 of 1909), as amended by Section 2 of the Opium Imendment Ordinance, 1911, (Ordinance No. 39 of 1911), this 94th day of July, 1913.
Whereas by the provisions of Section 3 of the Opin Ordinance, 1909, as amended by Section 2 of the Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1911, it was provided inter aliu 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 noti- fied in the Gorernment Gazette in pursuance of any Resolution of the Legislative Council as being illegal,
And whereas by a Resolution dated the 31st August, 1911, and made by the Legisla tive Council in pursuance of the provisions of Section 3 of the Opium Ordinance, 1999, as aniended by Section 2 of the Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1941, it was inter alia resolve that a Notification should be made in the next issue of the forernment (azette 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 such Opium hnd been declared for shipment to or consumption in China should be illegal :
And whereas the said Notification was duly published in the farernment Gazette of the 1st September, 1911, under Government Notification No. 259:
And whereas it is desirable to amend the same in certain respects:
Now it is hereby resolved that a Notification shall be made in the next issue of the Government Gazette that the above recited Resolution and Notification shall not apply to the transhipment in Hongkong of Raw Indian Opium exported and coming from India and con- signed to Macao for the use of the Macao Opium Farmer within the limits and conditions indicated in the Agreement between His Majesty's Government and the Government of the Portuguese Republic dated at London 14th June, 1913.
C. CLEMENTI,
Clerk of Councils.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
24th July, 1913.