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Amendment
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Geo. 5, c. 74, 3. 1 (2).
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8. 4.
(g)Indian hemp" means the dried flower- ing or fruiting tops of the pistillate plant known as cannabis sativa from which the resin has not been extracted, by whatever name such tops are called.
() Medicinal opium " means raw opium Cleo. 5, c. 74, which has undergone the processes necessary to adopt it for medicinal use in accordance with the requirements of the British Pharino copoein, whether it is in the form of powder or is granulated or is in any other forin, and whether it is or is not mixed with neutral substances.
5. Section 2 (2) of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance,
of Ordinance 1923, is amended by the insertion of the words :-
No. 22 of 1923, B. 2 (2).
Amendment of Ordinance No. 22 of 1923,
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or in accordance with the provisions of the Geo. 5, c. 74, International Convention signed at Geneva on the 19th day of February, 1925, herein. after called the Geneva Convention",
s. Ü.
immediately after the figures 1912" in the eighth line thereof.
6. Section 3 of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, 1923, is repealed and the following section is substituted there- for :-
Restrictions 3.-(1) Except under and in accordance on dealings with a licence granted under this Ordinance, in dangerous uo person shall, whether on his own behalf or drugs (and cock leaves), on behalt of any other person, whether such other person be in the Colony or not, buy, sell, supply, procure, or offer to supply or procure, from, to or for any other person, whether such other person be in the Colony or not, or in any way deal in or with, or offer to deal in, or pretend to deal in, or have in his possession, or import or export, or do any act preparatory to or for the purpose of importing or exporting, any drug to which this Ordi- nance applies, whether such drug be in the Colony or elsewhere, and whether it be ascertained or appropriated or in existence or not. and whether it is intended that it should be imported into the Colony or not.
(2) Subject to the obtaining of a licence under sub-section (1) before importation, any drug to which this Ordinance applies which is imported by water from a place from which such drug way by the law of that place legally be exported, under a through bill of lading for any place into which such drug may by the law of that place legally be imported, may be imported into the Colony by water and may be exported to such place by water provided that the following conditions are complied with :-
(a) The ship on which the drug is imported shall upon entering the waters of the Colony proceed direct and forthwith to the harbour of Victoria and shall forth- with enter such barbour.
(6) Full particulars as to the description, weight, consignors, consignces and destination of the drug, and as to the marks and numbers of the cases in which it is contained, shall appear in the manifest of the said ship.
(c) The presence of the drug on board the said ship shall be reported in writing to the Superintendent by the master of the ship within four hours after the arrival
of the ship in the harbour of Victoria: provided that if the office of the Super- intendent is not open for the four hours immediately after the arrival of the ship
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in the harbour of Victoria the report
required by this paragraph may he made to the inspector on duty at the Central Police Station,
(d) The drug shall not be :-
(i) removed from the ship on which
it was imported, or
(ii) in any way moved in the Colony after removal from such ship, or (iii) exporteil,
except under, and in accordance with, a removal or export licence issued by the Superintendent.
(e) The chests, boxes, cases or packages containing the drug shall be imported. and shall while in the Colony be main- tained, unopened and unbroken unless they are opened or broken during and for the purposes of some scarela nuthor- ized by this Ordinance.
(A copy of the export authorization, or of the diversion certificate if any, shall he produced to the Superintendent at least four hours before the dangerous drug is exported.
(g) The drug shall be exported with all
reasonable expedition,
(A) The ship on which the drug is exported shall, on leaving the harbour of Vie- toria, proceed direct and forthwith out of the waters of the Colony,
() The exportation of the drug shall be reported in writing to the Superin- tendent, by the owner, charterer of agent of the ship, within 48 hours after the departure out of the waters of the Colony of the ship on which the deng was exported.
(3) No export licence shall be issued under this sectiou until there shall have been produced to the Superintendent
a certificate in the form in the Se edule or in some form Schedule.
which appears to the Superintendent to be equivalent, and
un sach export licence sliai be issued anil the Superin- tendent is satisfied that such certificate is genuine and relates to the drug sought to be exported and has not been obtained by any misrepresentation.
7. Sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 5 of the Amendment Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, 1928, are repealed and the of Ordinance following sub-sections are substituted therefor :-
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(1) The drugs to which this Ordinance Geo. 5, c. 74, applies are morphine, evenine (including synthetic cocaine), eegonine, diacetylmorphine (commonly known as diamorphine or heroin) and their respective salts, me licinal opium, and any extract or tincture of Indian heap, and any preparation, admixture, extract or other substance containing any proportion of diacetylmorphine or containing not less than one-fifth per cent, of morphine or one-tenth per cent. of cocaine or ecgonine.
(2) For the purpose of sub-section (1) the expression "ecgonine means laevo-ocgouine and includes any derivatives of ecgonine from which it may be recovered industrially, and the percentage in the case of morphine shall be calculated as in respect of anhydrous morphine.
No. 22 of 1923, s. 5 (2), (3).
3. Sub-section (1) of section 6 of the Dangerous Drugs Amendment Ordinance, 1923, is repealed and the following sub-section of Ordinance
No. 22 of is substituted therefor :-
1923,
(1) The granting or refusal of any licence 8. 6 (1).
or authority nuder this Ordinance, and the