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(2) The proviso to Section 13 (2), as drafted, would appear to permit the Colonial Secretary to allow
drugs from a country which is a party to the Convention, to onter the Colony in transit unaccompanied by an export
authorisation or a diversion certificate. I am advised
that the dispensing power contained in the provi30
should be limited to powers allowed by the Convention.
I accordingly sugest, for your consideration, the
substitution of a proviso on the following lines:-
"Provided that, in the case of a consignment
of deleterious drugs brought into the Colony in the
course of transit from a country which is not a party
to the International Opium Convention signed at Geneva
on the 19th of February 1925, it shall be lawful for the
Colonial Secretary on the production to him of an import
certificate issued by the appropriate authority in the
country to which the drugs are consigned, to declare that, notwithstanding the provisions of this sub-section, the production to the Superintendent of a duly
authenticated copy of the export authorisation or of a
diversion certificate issued in respect of such drugs,
is dispensed with, and thereafter such drugs shall not
be deemed, by reason only of the non-production to the
Superintendent of one of the said documents, to have been
imported contrary to this Ordinance."
(3) The words "an Assistant Superintendent
of Government Monoplies at Penang or Malacca or to the
Resident at Labuan" appear to have been omitted between
the words "Singapore or" and the words "as the case may
be" in Section 13 (3).
(h)
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