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7.
Section 7. is a search and arrest section which in the main follows a form which has already been used here on more than one occasion. Sub-section (3) is new, and it is intended to give the Superintendent full discretion as to the persons to whom the powers of the section are to be given. For example some of the powers may be given only to senior Furopean officers, and
only
others may be given for particular occasions. Certain details
in the section are obviously taken from the English Acts.
8.
Section 8 gives some important powers of search and deten-
tion to the Postmaster General. They are not restricted to
postal articles whose origin or destination is Hongkong, but it
is hoped that this will not be objected to in view of the pro-
visions of Article 18 of the Madrid Convention of 1920.
9. Section 9 contains two presumption provisions. That in
sub-section (1) has been found useful in the Opium Ordinance.
That in sub-section (2) is new.
10.
Section 10 is based on a somewhat similar provision in
section 54 of the Opium Ordinance, 1914.
11.
Section 12 gives a general power of forfeiture to the court
or a magistrate. 12% It has been thought desirable to provide ex-
pressly in section 13 that nothing in the Pharmacy and Poisons
Ordinance 1916, is to have the effect of limiting in any way the
provisions of this Ordinance.
13.
A set of the regulations which have been made under the
Ordinance is annexed. These regulations follow the English
regulations so closely that it seems unnecessary to comment on
them.
14.
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