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in force to which His Majesty is a party, he shall be guilty of an offence against the provisions of this Article.
(b) For the purpose of a prosecution under the preceding paragraph, the Court may receive in evidence a certifi- cate purporting to be issued by or on behalf of the Government of any place outside the said limits and stating that any law mentioned in the said certificate is a law providing for the control or regulation in such place of the manufacture, sale, use, export and import of opium or dangerous drugs in accordance with the provisions of the International Opium Convention signed at The Hague on the 23rd day of January, 1912, or of the International Opium Convention signed at Geneva on the 19th day of February, 1925; and any statement in any such certificate as to the effect of the law mentioned in the certificate, or any state- ment in any such certificate that any facts constitute an offence against that law, shall be conclusive. (12) Any British subject guilty of an offence against the provisions of this Article shall on a first conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding £250 or to imprisonment with or without hard labour for a term not exceeding twelve months, or to both such fine and imprison- ment, and on a second or subsequent conviction to double the aforesaid penalties, and may in addition on any conviction be ordered to be deported; and any opium or dangerous drug in relation to which the offence has been committed shall be forfeited.
(13) Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 46 or any other Article of this Order every charge under this Article shall be heard and determined by the Court alone without a jury or assessors.
(14) For the purpose of the provisions of this article :— Opium includes raw opium, prepared opium (including dross) and medicinal opium.
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Dangerous drug means morphine, cocaine (including synthetic cocaine), coca leaves, ecgonine, diacetylmorphine (commonly known as dia- morphine or heroin) and their respective salts, and any extract or tincture of Indian hemp and the resin obtained from Indian hemp and the ordinary preparations of which the resin forms the base (such as hashish, charras), 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: esters of morphine and their respective salts, dihydro- oxycodeinone and its salts, dihydro-codeinone and
its salts, dilandide and its salts and any prepara- tion, admixture and extract containing any of these drugs.
For the purpose of the foregoing provision: (1) the expression ecgonine means laevo- ecgonine, and includes any derivatives of ecgonine from which it may be recovered industrially; (2) the percentage in the case of morphine shall be calculated as in respect of anhydrous morphine; (3) the expression
Indian hemp means the dried flowering or fruiting tops of the pistillate plant Cannabis sativa L., from which the resin has not been extracted, under whatever name they may be designated in commerce.
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(15) The High Commissioner shall have power by regulation made under this Order to add to the list of dangerous drugs as above defined any other plant or drug which is likely if improperly used to produce ill effects of a like character or nature or analogous to those pro- duced by the drugs aforesaid.
Deportation.
81.-(1) Where it is proved that there is reasonable ground to apprehend that (a) a British subject is about to commit a breach of the public peace, or that the acts or conduct of a British subject are or is likely to produce or excite to a breach of the public peace, or (b) a British subject has acted or is about to act in a manner prejudicial to the public safety, or to the defence, peace or security of His Majesty's dominions, or any part of them, or of the dominions of His Majesty the King of Egypt, or (c) a British subject has been guilty of conduct which would in the United Kingdom constitute an offence under the Vagrancy Acts, or under the Criminal Law Amendment Acts, 1885 and 1912, (a) the Court may, if it thinks fit, cause him to be brought before it, and require him to give security, to the satisfaction of the Court, to keep the peace, or for his future good behaviour, as the case may require.
(2) Where a British subject is convicted of an offence, the Court for the district in which he is may, if it thinks fit, require him to give security to the satisfaction of the Court for his future good behaviour, and for that purpose may (if need be) cause him to be brought before the Court.
(3) In either of the foregoing cases, if the person required to give security fails to do so, or if, having given the security, he fails during the continuance of the security to keep the peace or to be of good behaviour, the Court may order that he be de- ported from Egypt to such place as the Court directs.
(a) 48-9 V. c. 69 and 2-3 G. 5. c. 20.
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