NOW
HONG KONG.
No. 3 OF 1930.
I assent.
Cement
Governor.
24th January, 1930.
An Ordinance to amend further the Opium
Ordinance, 1923.
[24th January, 1930.]
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Opium Amend- Short title. ment Ordinance, 1930; and the Opium Ordinance, 1923, Ordinance the Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1924, and this Ordi- No. 30 of nance, may be cited together as the Opium Ordinances, Ordinance 1923-1930.
1923.
No. 7 of 1924.
2. Paragraph (b) of section 2 (1) of the Opium Ordi- Amendment nance, 1923, is repealed and the following paragraph is of Ordina nce
No. 30 of 1923,
substituted therefor :-
(b) “To export" means to carry or other- 8.2 (1) (b). wise despatch out of the Colony or to cause to be carried or despatched out of the Colony and includes the conveyance of opium out of the Colony by transit mail or any other mail and the carriage out of the Colony of opium which was carried into the Colony by water or by air and which is carried out of the Colony on the same ship or aircraft on which it was carried into the Colony with or with- out any landing or transhipment.
3. Paragraph (d) of section 2 (1) of the Opium Ordi- Amendment nance, 1923, is repealed and the following paragraph is of Ordinance
No. 30 of substituted therefor :-
1923,
(d) “ To import" means to carry or other- s. 2 (1) (d). wise despatch into the Colony or to cause to be carried or otherwise despatched into the Colony and includes the conveyance of opium into the Colony by transit mail or any other mail and the carriage by water or by air into the Colony of opium which is intended to be carried out of the Colony on the same ship or aircraft on which it was carried into the Colony with or without any landing or tran- shipment.
4. Section 4 (1) of the Opium Ordinance, 1923, as Amendment enacted by section 2 of the Opium Amendment Ordi- of Ordinance
No. 30 of nance, 1924, is amended by the insertion of the words 1923, "and whether it is intended that it should be imported s. 4 (1) as into the Colony or not," immediately after the words "in enacted by existence or not".
Ordinance No. 7 of 1924, s. 2.
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