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this was going to be done under section 43 of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876 ? Our
Solicitor thinks an import prohibition is essential to working the Customs part in the scheme : and there is no need here the
machinery of the section quoted being ready hand)- to resort to the Defence of the Realm
Regulations.
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3. On page 3, line 12, I should prefer omit the words "muggle or otherwise",
Attempts to smuggle (contrary to the ir. or export prohibitions) would be dealt with the Customs under their powers.
4. I do not profess to be a judge of ma
can or cannot be done under the Defence of th
Realm Regulations: but I am content to acre
the last sentence of the draft if it is endo
by the other members of the Conference.
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༦-ཅ་ཨ་རིའི་ཐམ་
Dear Mr. Robinson,
Mr. Baker and I have read the draft Einutes on
the Opium Conference which took place at the Colonial
Office the other day and we concur in them except Bo
far as regards the final paragraph. The only suggestion!
we have to make concerning the rest of the Minutes is that
a sentence might be added at the end of the last complete!
paragraph on the second page to the effect that the in-
portation of Opium otherwise than as provided for could
be prohibited under Section 43 of the Customs Lawe
Consolidation Act, 1876.
In regard to the last paragraph, however, Mr.
Baker concure with me in the view that the Conference
should give as their main reason for the issue of an
Order under the Defence of the Realm Regulations the
necessity for preventing evasion of the existing
prohibition of Export of Opium. This Prohibition has
been
:
J. R. W. Robinson, Esq.