Cultivation of
and dealing in cannabis
plant and
opium poppy.
Licence to
import
dangerous drug.
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(2) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction on indictment or on summary conviction to a fine of ten thousand dollars and to imprisonment for three years.
9. (1) No person shall cultivate any plant of the genus cannabis or the opium poppy.
(2) No person sball, on his own behalf or on behalf of any other person, whether or not such other person is in Hong Kong
(a) supply or procure or offer to supply or procure;
(b) in any way deal in or with or offer or purport to deal
in or with; or
(c) import into or export from Hong Kong or do an act preparatory to or for the purpose of such importing or exporting.
any plant of the genus cannabis or the opium poppy, whether or not the same is in Hong Kong or is ascertained or appropriated or in existence.
(3) No person shall have in his possession any plant of the genus cannabis or the opium poppy unless the same is in transit.
(4) Section 14 shall apply to any plant of the genus cannabis and the opium poppy when the same is in transit as it applies to a dangerous drug which is in transit.
(5) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on convic- tion on indictment to a fine of one hundred thousand dollars and to imprisonment for fifteen years.
PART III
ISSUE OF LICENCES AND CERTIFICATËS, REQUIREMENTS IN CONNEXION WITH LAWFUL IMPORT AND EXPORT
OF DANGEROUS DRUGS, AND DANGEROUS
DRUGS IN TRANSIT.
10. (1) The Director may issue an import licence authoriz- ing the person named therein to import into Hong Kong, within the period specified therein, such quantity of a dangerous drug as may be specified therein.
(2) When an import licence is issued to any person under subsection (1), the Director shall also issue to that person an import certificate, and where such person intends to import the
dangerous drug in more than one consignment the Director shall issue to him a separate import certificate in respect of each consignment.
fl. (1) The person to whom an import certificate is issued under subsection (2) of section 10 shall send the same to the person from whom the dangerous drug to which it relates is to be obtained.
(2) A dangerous drug which is imported into Hong Kong from a country which is a party to the Conventions shall be accompanied by a valid export authorization or diversion certi- ficate.
(3) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of five thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months.
(4) In the event of a contravention of subsection (2), the person by whom the dangerous drug is imported into Hong Kong shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on convic- tion to a fine of five thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months, unless he shows that he had taken all practicable steps to ensure that the said subsection was complied with.
12. (1) Subject to subsection (2), the Director may issue an export licence authorizing the person named therein to export from Hong Kong to the country specified therein, within the period specified therein, such quantity of a dangerous drug as may be specified therein.
(2) Save where the dangerous drug is to be exported to a country which is not a party to the Conventions, an export licence shall not be issued under subsection (1) except on production of an import certificate issued by a competent authority in the country to which the drug is to be exported, and then only to the person named in such certificate and in respect of the dangerous drug specified therein.
(3) When an export licence is issued to any person under subsection (1), the Director shall also issue to that person a copy of the licence.
13. (1) The person to whom au export licence is issued under subsection (1) of section 12 shall send the copy of the licence issued to him pursuant to subsection (2) of that section with the dangerous drug to which the licence relates when the same is exported from Hong Kong.
Requirements
to be complied with in relation to import of dangerous drug.
Licence to export dangerous drug.
Requirements
to be complied with an export
of dangerous drug.