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6.
(a) Conveyance by air is included.
(b) Conveyance in transit mails is included.
(c) The former definitions referred only to
'carriage", and this might be held not to apply
to the case of a packet of drugs thrown across
the land frontier. The case is perhaps unlikely
but the words "otherwise despatch" and "otherwise
bring" are inserted with a view to covering it.
The new section 3 (1) of the principal Ordinance which
is enacted by clause 6 of this Ordinance is based on section
4 (1) of the Opium Ordinance, 1927, Ordinance llo. 30 of 1923,
as enacted by section 2 of the Opium Amendment Ordinance,
1924, Ordinance 7 of 192, but contains the following
additional points :-
7.
(a) The prohibitions of the sub-section are expressly
extended to the casey where the other party to the
transaction is not in the Colony.
(b) It is made an offence to deal with the drugs to
which the Ordinance applies as well as to deal
in them.
(c) It is made an offence to pretend to deal in any
of the drugs to which the Ordinance applies.
This is intended to meet a possible defence that
the accused had no real intention of dealing in
dangerous drugs but was only pretending to do so
with some other object.
(a) The prohibitions of this sub-section are
expressly made to apply whether it is intended
that the drug in question should be imported into
the Colony or not.
Section 8 of this Ordinance amends section 6 (1 of
the principal Ordinance so as to make the absolute discretion.
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of the Superintendent perfectly clear, and also as to give him
power to revoke any licence or authority already granted.
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