HONG KONG.
No. 7 OF 1934.
I assent.
W. PEEL,
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L.S.
Governor.
18th May, 1934.
An Ordinance to amend the law relating to Opium.
[18th May, 1934.]
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, 1934.
2. Section 15 of the Opium Ordinance, 1932, as amend Substitution ed by the Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1933, is repealed for Ordin- and the following section is substituted therefor:
15.-(1) No person shall
(a) smoke opium in any opium divan; or
ance No. 7 of 1932, s. 15, as amended by Ordinance No. 16 of 1933.
Opium divans and smoking therein
(b) keep or manage or act or assist in the management prohibited. of any opium divan; or
(c) being the tenant, lessee, occupier, or person in charge of any place, knowingly permit such place or any part thereof to be used as an opium divan; or
(d) being the lessor or landlord of any place, or the agent of such lessor or landlord, let the same with the knowledge that such place or some part thereof is to be used as an opium divan, or consent to the use, at any time, of such place or any part thereof as an opium divan.
(2) In and for the purposes of this section
(a) "lessee" and "tenant" respectively include any sub-lessee or sub-tenant;
(b) lessor" and "landlord" respectively include the holder of any lease or tenancy who has sublet his holding or any part thereof; and
(c) the lessor or landlord of any place, or the agent of such lessor or landlord, shall be presumed to have consented to the use of such place or of any part thereof as an opium divan, if it is proved, to the satisfaction of the magistrate, that he knew of such use, and failed forthwith to proceed to put an end to the same, by making a report at any police station or by terminating the lease or tenancy.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 17th day of May, 1934.
R. A. C. NORTH,
Deputy Clerk of Councils.