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Enclosure I in No. 1.
Opium Lau.
(Law No. 27 of March 30, 1897; revised July 24, 1917.)
ARTICLE 1. Persons proposing to manufacture opium should obtain the permission of the local Governor.
Art. 2. Manufacturers of opium should deliver up the opium they have manu- factured to the Government every year by the date fixed by the local Governor.
The Government test the opium mentioned in the preceding paragraph and pay compensation for such as complies with the fixed standard of norphine content, destroying by burning without compensation such as does not come up to standard.
Art. 3. The Government seal up and sell opium for medicinal and pharmaceutical use only.
Opium other than what has been sold by the Government may not be bought or sold, delivered or received, owned or held.
Art 4. The Minister of the Interior notifies the morphine content of opium for which compensation will be paid and the amount of compensation in accordance with article 2, also the price of opium for medicinal use to be sold by the Government in
accordance with article 3.
When it is proposed to increase the morphine content of opium for which compensation will be paid, or to decrease the amount of compensation, notice shall be given a year in advance.
Art. 5.. The local Governor is caused to carry on the Government sale of opium for medicinal use by the appointing suitable persons from among the pharmacists and druggists within his jurisdiction as the only wholesale vendors.
Art. 6. When physicians and dealers in drugs require opium for medicinal use, they should purchase it from a wholesale vendor, giving a sealed certificate stating the quantity, together with their name and address and the date.
Physicians and apothecaries may purchase opium for medicinal use from pharmacists and druggists, or pharmacists and druggists may buy and sell it among themseves. In this case the certificate mentioned in the preceding paragraph should be furnished.
Art. 7. Opium for medicinal use cannot be bought or sold otherwise than under the preceding article, unless a physician's prescription is produced.
A pharmacist may open a receptacle sealed by the Government to another put it in pharmacist and sell opium for medicinal use by retail. In this case be should a suitable receptacle and seal it.
Druggists, whether wholesale vendors or not, may not open receptacles scaled by the Government or a pharmacist and sell by retail.
Art. 8. Prescription slips and the certificates mentioned in article 6 should be preserved for a period of ten years from the date thereof.
Matters relating to the sale by the Government of opium for pharmaceutical use are determined by order.
Art. 9. Persons who have manufactured opium without obtaining the permission of the local Governor, or persons who have infringed the second paragraph of article 3, are liable to a fine not exceeding 500 yen.
Art. 10. Opium manufactured without the permission of the local Governor being obtained, or opium which has been sold otherwise than by the Government, is confiscated.
Art. 11. Persons who have infringed the first paragraph of article 2 are liable to a fine not exceeding 300 yen.
Art. 12. Persons who have infringed articles 7 and 8 are liable to a fine not exceeding 100 yen.
When a dealer in drugs or an opium manufacturer is a minor or a person inter- dicted from the management of his property, penal regulations applicable to him under this law, or orders issued on the basis thereof, apply to his legal representative. How ever, the case of a minor who possesses legal capacity identical with that of an adult in regard to his business does not fall within the scope of this provision.
A dealer in drugs or an opium manufacturer cannot escape punishment when his representative, the head or a member of his family, a co-habitant, an employee, or other person engaged in business, has in connection with the business infringed this law
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orders issued on the basis thereof, on the ground that the infraction did not proceed from his directions.
Law No. 52 of 1900 applies mutatis mutandis to offences under this law or orders issued on the basis thereof.
Art. 13. When opium manufacturers or wholesale vendors of opium for medicinal use have infringed this law, or regulations relating to the enforcement thereof, the local governor may cancel their permission or appointment.
Supplementary Rules.
Art. 14. This law comes into force from the 1st April, 1897.
Art. 15. Persous actually having permission to be manufacturers of opium upon the day of the enforcement of this law are considered as having obtained the permission mentioned in article 1.
Art. 16. Opium deposited in Local Government offices prior to the enforcement of this law shall be destroyed by burning.
Art. 17. The regulations for sale and manufacture of opium for medicinal use contained in decree No. 21 of 1878 are abolished from the date of the enforcement of this law.
Enclosure 2 in No. 1.
Regulations for the Enforcement of the Opium Law.
(Latest Amendment, August 14, 1917.)
ARTICLE 1. When a manufacturer of opium proposes to deliver opium up to the Government he should note the weight of the opium on a delivery note, and send the latter in accompanied by the goods in question, through the Local Government Office to the nearest Hygienic Laboratory. A wooden label should be attached to the goods
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When a Local Government Office has received the delivery note mentioned in the preceding paragraph, it should immediately forward the same accompanied by the goods in question to the nearest Hygienic Laboratory,
When a Hygienic Laboratory has received opium forwarded in accordance with the preceding paragraph it should carry out a test, fulfil the procedure for the payment of compensation, and transfer the custody of the goods in question, accompanied by note of the results, to the Tokyo Hygienic Laboratory. There is, however, no necessity to test goods delivered of less than 5 momme in weight.
Art. 2. The receptacles for opium for medicinal use sold by the Government are of three kinds, viz.: No. 1 (5 grammes), No. 2 (25 grammes), and No. 3 (450 grammes); euch receptacle has a fixed price separately determined noted on it, and is sealed with the stamp of the Hygienic Laboratory.
Art. 3. Wholesale vendors of opiuin for medicinal use should estimate the quantity of opium the sale of which by the Government they wish to obtain in each half year, according to the Government's fiscal year future years will all follow this) and should make application for it to the Local Government Office stating the kind and number of the receptacles. However, on occasion of a deficiency extraordinary applications may
be made.
Art. 4. Wholesale vendors of opium for medicinal use should hang up sign boards in their shop inscribed “Opium for medicinal use sold by wholesale here.
Wholesale vendors of opium for medicinal use should sell the same at the price fixed by the Government.
Art. 5. When a manufacturer of opium or a wholesale vendor of opium for medicinal use changes his status and place of registration, his address. or his name, or gives up business, or has died, a report should be made to the Local Government Office within 10 days.
When a manufacturer of opium or a wholesale vendor of opium for medicinal use has given up business, or dies, and his heir does not succeed to his business, the opium already manufactured and the balance of the opium for sale should be delivered up or its repurchase applied for within the period mentioned in the preceding paragraph.
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* 1 momme = 3-7565 graumes. Translator.
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