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First
Schedule Form No. 1.
Amendment
Licence
under s. 4 (1), and
revocation
of licence,
discretionary.
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or
except under, and in accord- ance with, a removal export permit issued by the Superintendent.
(e) The chest, box, case or package containing the raw opium shall be imported, and shall in the Colony be maintained, unopened and unbroken, unless it is open- ed or broken during and for the
of some search purposes authorised by this Ordi-
nance.
(f) The raw opium shall be exported with all reasonable expedition.
(g) The ship on which the raw opium is exported shall, on leaving the harbour of Vic- toria, proceed direct [and forthwith out of the waters of the Colony.
() The exportation of the raw opium shall be reported in writing to the Superintend- ent, by the owner, charterer or agent of the ship, within 48 hours after the departure out of the waters of the Colony of the ship on which the raw opium is exported.
(4) No export permit shall be issued ander paragraph (d) of sub-section (2) until there shall have been produced to the Superintendent a certificate in Form No. 1 in the First Schedule or in some form which appears to the Superintendent to be equivalent, and no such export permit shall be issued until the Superintendent is satisfied that such certificate is genuine and relates to the opium sought to be exported and has not been obtained by any misre- presentation.
(5) The Superintendent shall not issue any export permit for the exportation of any opium referred to in sub- section (3) except under the express authority of the Governor.
(6) Sub-section (1) shall not apply to any raw opium inported by the Superintendent and in his possession or under his control.
5. The granting of any licence under sec- tion 4 (1), and the revocation of
any
such licence, shall lie in the absolute discretion of the Governor, who may impose any conditions that he may think fit upon the granting of any such licence.
3. The proviso to section 6 (2) of the Opium Ordi-
of Ordinance pance. 1923, is repealed,
No. 30 of
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4. Section 7 (2) of the Opium Ordinance, 1923, is Amendment repealed and the following sub-section is substituted of Ordinance therefor :-
No. 30 of 1923, s. 7 (2).
(2) The issue of every removal and export per- mit shall be in the absolute discretion of
the Superintendent, who may vary the forms of permit in the First Schedule and may impose any conditions that he may think tit.
5. The proviso to section 8 of the Opium Ordinance, Amendment. 1923, is repealed.
of Ordinance No. 30 of 1923, s. 8.
No. 30 of
6. Section 21 (3) of the Opium Ordinance, 1923, is Amenilmont amended by the deletion of the words "unless it is of Ordinance proved, to the satisfaction of the magistrate," and by 1923, s. 21 the substitution therefor of the words "unless the (3). magistrate is satisfied".
7. The following table is substituted for that con- Amendment tained in section 30 (1) of the Opium Ordinance, 1923:-
SECTION OR SUB-SECTION.
MAXIMUM
FINE.
MAXIMUM TERM OF IMPRISONMENT.
8
$2,000
15 (1)
$ 500
15 (2)
$ 25
17
$5,000
One year.
18
$5,000
One year.
10
$5,000
One year.
25 (4)
$ 250
J
25 (5)
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$ 250
Six months.
250
of Ordinance No. 30 of 1923, a. 39 (1).
ure
Repeal of Ordinance
No. 5 of 1914,
Schedule.
8. Sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) of paragraph 187 of the Schedule to the Law Revision Ordinance, 1924, repealed.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 28th day of August, 1924.
Paragraph
187 (2) & (3).
S. B. B. McELDERRY, Clerk of Councils.
1923, s. 6 (2).
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