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Opium divans and smoking
therein
prohibited.
Presump-
tions (1) as to opium divans, (2) as to
smoking opium in an opium divan.
Unlawful possession
of Govern. ment opium labels and wrappers.
Possession
of labels,
etc.,
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(2) No person shall aid, abet, counsel or procure any such sale, purchase, smoking or possession.
15.-(1) No person shall open or keep an opium divan.
(2) No person shall smoke opium in any opium divan.
16. (1) Where two or more persons are found smoking opium in any place, such persons not being residents in the said place, it shall, until the contrary is proved, be presumed-
(a) that the said place is an opium divan; and
(b) that the tenant or occupier of the said place is keep- ing the said place as an opium divan, provided that such tenant or occupier or a servant of such tenant or occupier is present at the time of the finding of such persons.
(2) Every person found in any opium divan or found escaping therefrom on the occasion of its being entered under this Ordinance shall, until the contrary is proved, be presumed to be or to have been smoking opium therein.
17. (1) No person shall, without lawful authority or excuse, have in his possession, except attached to a recep- tacle issued by the Superintendent and containing Governinent prepared opium, any label or wrapper of a kind used by the Superintendent for affixing to receptacles con- taining Government prepared opium, or any portion of any such label or wrapper.
(2) No person shall, without lawful authority or excuse. have in his possession, except attached to a receptacle issued by the Superintendent and containing the full quantity of Government prepared opium contained therein at the time of issue, any label or wrapper of a kind used by the Super- intendent for affixing to receptacles containing Government prepared opium, unless such label or wrapper has been broken in such a way as to make it impracticable to use the label or wrapper again.
18-(1) No person shall, without lawful authority or excuse, have in his possession any label, wrapper, or mark, so resembling any label, wrapper, or mark used by the opium labels, Superintendent in connexion with Government prepared
resembling
Government
and dies,
etc., for the
production of
such labels, .etc.
Counter- feiting Government opium pre- parations or distinctive
marks thereon.
opium as to constitute a colourable imitation thereof, or have in his possession any die, block, or type apparently intended for the production of any such label, wrapper, or mark.
(2) For the purposes of this section, "label", "wrap- per", "mark", "die", "block" and "type" shall be deemed respectively to include any portion of a label, wrapper, mark, die, block or type.
19. No person shall mix anything with prepared opium with the intention of causing it to be believed that such prepared opium is Government prepared opium, or shall counterfeit any mark used by the Superintendent to denote that the prepared opium contained in any receptacle is Government prepared opium, or shall use as genuine any such mark.
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of prepared
20. No person shall export, or do any act preparatory to Exportation or for the purpose of exporting, any prepared opium or opium opium dross Provided that this section shall not be con- prohibited. strued as applying to the possession, under special permit from the Superintendent, by a passenger from the Colony to any place not within the Colony of a quantity of prepared opium, to be used for personal consumption on the voyage, not exceeding five mace for every day of duration of the voyage
PART IV.
GENERAL.
Ships.
21. (1) No person shall, without lawful authority of Ships
prohibited excuse, use any ship for the importation, landing, removal, from being carriage, conveyance, storage or exportation of any opium used in
smuggling in contravention of this Ordinance.
opium,
(2) Where the amount of any such opium found on board any such ship exceeds--
(a) in the case of any ship of sixty tons net register tonnage and upwards, 500 taels in weight; or,
(b) in the case of any ship under sixty tons net register tonnage, 100 taels in weight;
want of knowledge of such user shall not be deemed an excuse under this section if the owner, agent, master or other person charged was in a position to take reasonable precautions to prevent such user and neglected to take such precautions.
on ship's
22. (1) No person shall bring or have in his possession Opium not on board any ship any opium, other than the prepared opium manifest. specified in the proviso to section 20, unless the same is entered on the manifest of the ship.
(2) The master of any such ship may seize any such opium as aforesaid found on board his ship which is not entered on the manifest, and may retain the same in his possession until he can deliver it to a police officer.
Post Office.
28.—(1) No person shall send any opium by post.
(2) It shall be lawful for the Postmaster General to detain and open any postal article which he may suspect to contain any opium or anything which would be liable to seizure under section 31 (1) (ƒ).
(3) If any postal article contains any opium, or if any postal article contains anything which would be liable to seizure under section 31 (1) (f), it shall be lawful for the Postmaster General to detain such postal article and all its contents, and to deal with such article and its contents as the Governor may direct.
(4) Sub-sections (2) and (3) shall apply to all postal articles, whether posted in the Colony or not.
Postal provisions.
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