282 ORDINANCE No. 4 OF 1853 .
Spirits- Opium.
Certain provi 1. So much of the said Ordinance No. 11 of 1844 as refers to the mode of granting
sions of Ordi
nance No. 11 of
1844 as to the licences, and as prohibits the sale of spirituous liquors where a retail shop for the sale
mode ofgranting
licences, &c., not of other articles is kept, shall not apply to Chinese licensed to retail spirituous liquors.
to apply to under this Ordinance .
Chinese.
Superintendent 2. Any Chinese requiring a licence to retail spirituous liquors to Chinese only
of Police to grant
licences to sell may apply to the Superintendent of Police, or such other officer as the Governor may
spirituous liquors
to Chinese only.
from time to time appoint for this purpose, who, on being satisfied that the applicant
is a proper person to receive such licence and on payment of the established fee into
the Colonial Treasury may grant a licence in the form laid down in schedule A. which
licence shall not take effect until it has been countersigned by the Chief Magistrate.
Former opium 3. The said regulations for the retail of opium, made on the 19th July, 1847, be
regulations
annulled. and the same are hereby annulled .
Opium not to be 4. If any person shall, without licence, sell or barter raw opium in any quantity
retailed or pre
pared without a less than one chest, or prepare opium in any quantity, or sell or barter prepared opium
licence.
in any quantity, or keep a smoking divan, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding
five hundred dollars.
Prohibition 5. If any person not licensed to retail raw opium shall import into the Colony
against importa
tion by
unlicensed raw opium in smaller quantity than one chest, or receive into his possession any such
dealers.
raw opium so imported , or if any person not licensed to prepare opium, or to sell pre
pared opium shall import into the Colony prepared opium in any quantity, or receive
into his possession any such prepared opium so imported, he shall be liable to a
penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars .
Superintendent 6. Any person requiring a licence to retail opium, or to prepare opium or to sell
ofPolice may
grant licences to prepared opium, or to keep a smoking divan, may apply to the Superintendent of Police,
retail or prepare
opium.
or such other officer aforesaid, who, on being satisfied that the applicant is a proper
person to receive such licence, and on payment of the established fee into the Colonial
Treasury shall grant a licence in the form laid down in schedule B, which licence shall
not take effect until countersigned by the Chief Magistrate.
Superintendent 7. The Superintendent of Police may require that all persons licensed hereunder
of Police may
require licence
holders to make exhibit in front of the premises licensed their names and the number and nature of
certain returns ,
and may their licence, in a form to be determined by him . He may also, by inserting a special
establish rules for
the preservation clause in the licence, require all licensed persons to send in a monthly return of the
oforder in
smoking divans. quantities of opium or spirituous liquors retailed , sold or prepared by them. He may
also insert in the licences for keeping smoking divans the hours during which the
divans shall be open, and any other rules appearing to him necessary for the
preservation of good order therein.
Penalties for 8. If any holder of a licence shall offend against the tenor of his licence be
offences against
licence. shall be liable to pay a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars , and for a second offence
the convicting Magistrate may in addition annul the licence.