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Report
on an Ordinance entitled An Ordinance to amend
the Pharmacy Ordinance, 1908, and Ordinance No.
9 of 1910 as incorporated in the Pharmacy Ordi-
nance, 1908.
the present time the necessary restrictions on the
in phine and its Compounds have been substantially
und the provisions of Part III of the Opium Ordinance,
The Opium Ordinance 1914 passed simultaneously with this
Jonase for the purpose of re-arranging and re-casting the law -ąsing to fpium in consequence of the assumption by this Govern-
iş or the quium business hitherto leased out to the Opium Farmer ng, not re-produce Part III of the Ordinance for which it is sub-
having been intended that Morphine and its Compounds
št ̃ba rapovjā entirely from the purview of the opium laws and
watida e scope of that part of the Pharmacy Ordinance
desit viun noxious poisons.
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Under the provisions of the
Frapy Trainance 1908 and the Pharmacy Ordinance 1910 which is
ampa, vten with the former; it is possible to place Morphine and
Compounds within the ambit of those Ordinances without the
* for the passage of an amending Ordinance, this inclu-
empable of being effected Firstly by the addition of
o the list of the poisons scheduled as such to the
nance 1908 by means of order of the Governor-in-
On
the provisions of Section 9 of that Ordinance, and
the insertion by means of a resolution of the Legis-
1 under Section 2 of the Pharmacy Ordinance 1910
tore Image in the schedule to this latter ordinance, that
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g at present occupied solely by their sister evil
.te derivatives. The course of procedure indicated
roposed to follow forthwith. But there are certain
whit when making the above changes it was thought de-
kinų kieneously to add to the existing law and these slight
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amendments are carried out by the present Ordinance.
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Section of the Ordinance is formal. But it may be poime
ed out that owing to the somewhat peculiar manner in which the Phar- macy Ordinance 1910 has been incorporated with the Pharmacy Ordinance of 1908, the phraseology necessary in Section 1 and also in the title of the Ordinance is slightly divergent from that which usually is employed.
Section 2 of the Ordinance amends an accidental omission in Section 4 of the Pharmacy Ordinance 1908 which appears to have oo- curred in the preparation of the recent revised edition of the laws of the Colony. The expression "Pharmaceutical Chemist
and Druggi: does not appear to be technically correct; the true distinction being between a "Pharmaceutical Chemist" and a "Chemist and Druggist". This proper distinction is now preserved by the amendment made by Section
2.
Section 3 of the Ordinance makes various sat 1 amendmente
in the Pharmacy Ordinance 1910 (Ordinance No.9 of 1910 follows:-
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These are am
(a) It extends to Revenue officers the powers of search under
warrant issued by a Justice of the Peace which is under the existing law conferred upon Police officers.
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(b) It deletes what appears to be now unnecessary definition of
"officer of the police".
(e) It combines Section 4 of the Ordinance which details the
powers of officers executing search warrants with Section 3 which lays down the circumstances under which a warrant may be issued. This is done for convenience in view of the
introduction of a new Section 4.
(d) It gives power to certain duly authorized European police on
Revenue officers to search in cases of urgency without war-
rant for poisons of this class which are believed to be 11-
legally concealed or deposited in any place.
(e) It alters the main pecuniary penalty for the contravention
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of the Ordinance so as to give as an alternative to the
present fine with its maximum of 2,000 dollars pecuniary
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