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Provided that a person who in accordance with the prescription of a person qualified to give the same in accordance with the provisions of the Medical Practi- tioners Ordinance, 1910, has in his possession any opium which he has obtained from any person duly authorised to supply the same shall not be deemed to have contravened the provisions of this Ordinance by such possession.
V. It shall be lawful for the Police Magistrate if satisfied by information or. oath that any opium is being unlawfully grown kept imported sold or offered for sale in any place whether a building or not or in any ship or vehicle not having the status of a ship of war to grant a warrant to any Police Constable to enter at any time such premises or ship and every part thereof and to examine the same and to search for and seize any opium that may be found therein and any persons acting under the aforementioned warrant shall not be liable to any suit for seizing such opium.
VI. Whoever attempts to commit or aids or abets in the commission of any offence against this Ordinance may be dealt with in the same way and shall be liable in the same penalty as if he were charged with the actual offence.
VII. The Governor in Council shall have power to make Rules for the better enforcement of this Ordinance and to attach to the breach of any such Rules any penalty not exceeding five pounds to be recovered summarily before the Police Magis- trate or any two Justices of the Peace and in default of payment to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding thirty-one days.
VIII. This Ordinance shall come into force on a date to be notified by the Governor by Proclamation.
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I find I shall have some difficulty in getting this Bill through the Legislative Council. Dr. Cran asks that the provisions of Sections 7 and 8 shall not apply to registered medical practitioners.
3. I enclose copy of a minute I sent to the Principal Medical Officer, and of his reply. In view of his expression of opinion I think it extremely doubtful that any single Unofficial Member of the Council will support the Bill unless altered as desired by Dr. Cran. For this reason I withdrew the Bill from the business of the Legislative Council at a sitting held last month, and submit the matter to you.
4. I do not think that at the present moment there is any necessity to bring the proposed Ordinance into operation, and the Bill provides that the Ordinance shall come into operation on such day as the Governor shall by Proclamation in the Gazette appoint. Such Proclamation might very well be postponed until it shall appear necessary. Once, however, that it is necessary to bring the Ordinance into operation I do not think that it is safe to make the exemption in favour of registered medical practitioners. I understand from Dr. Cran that he is willing to defer to your wishes in this matter if you think the sections as they stand essential.
I have, &c.,
WILFRED COLLET,
Enclosure 2 in No. 162.
Governor.
No. 161.
FALKLAND ISLANDS.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received 12th May, 1913.)
L.F.]
[Copy of Enclosure to Foreign Office, 28th May, 1913.
[Ordinance sanctioned, 27th May, 1913. No. 53. L.F.]
Government House, Stanley, 10th April, 1913.
(No. 61.) SIR,
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 113, of 19th October last,* relative to legislation being passed in this Colony to give effect to the Hague Opium Convention, and in reply to transmit herewith, for the significa- tion of His Majesty's pleasure, Ordinance No. 3 of 1913,† An Ordinance to give effect to the measures decided upon in the International Opium Convention signed at The Hague on the 23rd day of January, 1912, and to regulate the importation into and the storage and disposal of Opium, Morphine, Cocaine, and similar drugs in the Colony of the Falkland Islands."
2. This Ordinance has been drafted in accordance with the instructions contained in paragraph 2 of your despatch.
PRINCIPAL MEDICAL OFFICER,
I SHALL be glad if you will carefully study this draft, so as to be familiar
with the meaning given to each term.
is not included in the term "prepared opium."
11 April, 1913.
COLONIAL SECRETARY,
I take it that in the Biil medicinal opium'
W. COLLET,
Colonial Secretary.
I HAVE carefully gone through the draft and am familiar with the terms.
It is true that the term "medicinal opium" is not included in the term "prepared opium," but opium includes all preparations-crude or otherwise.
In Section 5 prepared opium is prohibited being imported, but nothing is stated about raw opium.
In my opinion, the Bill is too drastic, and entails a great hardship on medical practitioners and druggists; medicinal opium should not be included. In this Colony the objects of the Bill can be met by only mentioning raw and prepared opium.
J. H. HUGH HARRISON,
16 April, 1913.
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I have, &c..
W. L. ALLARDYCE,
Governor.
No. 162.
BRITISH HONDURAS.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(No. 104.)
SIR,
(Received June 21, 1913.)
[Answered by No. 165.]
Government House, Belize, 6th June, 1913. I HAVE the honour to enclose draft of a. Bill† to give effect to the International Miscellaneous Opium Convention. This Bill is based on one forwarded with your despatch of the 26th July.‡
• No. 119.
↑ Not reprinted.
‡ No. 17.
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SIR,
No. 163.
SOUTHERN NIGERIA.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE, (Received 26th June, 1913.)
[Copy of Enclosure 1 to Foreign Office, 11th July, 1913. L.F.] [Ordinance sanctioned 11th July, 1913. No. 461. L.F]
(No. 274.)
Lagos, Southern Nigeria, 4th June, 1913.
(London, 26th June, 1913.)
In accordance with your Circular despatch of the 7th of March, 1912,* I have the honour to forward herewith two sealed and twelve ordinary copies of Ordinance No. 4 of 1913,† entitled “An Ordinance to give effect to the measures decided upon in the International Opium Convention signed at the Hague on the 23rd day of January, 1912, and to regulate the importation into and the storage and disposal of
• No. 2.
Not reprinted.