1965, c. 13. 1. 2011.
Firs Scbcdale.
Sconnd Schedule.
3.1. 1964/1811.
D. XXI.
with the requirements of the British Pharmacopoeia, whether it is in the form of powder or is granulated or is in any other form, and whether or not it is mixed with neutral substances; "opium" includes raw opium, prepared opium, opium dross and every substance (other than medicinal opium) containing any proportion of raw opium, prepared opium or opium dross; "opium dross" means any residue remaining after opium bas been
songked;
"opium poppy" means a plant of the species Papaver somniferum Z or the species Papaver setigerum D.C. and any plant from which morphine may be produced;
"owner"" includes any person holding premises direct from the Crown, whether under lease, licence or otherwise, any mort- gagee in possession and any person receiving the rent of any premises, solely or with another and on his own behalf or that of any person, or who would receive the same if such premises were let to a tenant, and, where such owner as above defined cannot be found or ascertained or is absent from Hong Kong or is under disability, also includes the agent of such owner:
"place" means any ship, aircraft, vehicle, building, structure or enclosure, whether movable or not, and any spot on land or
water:
"poppy straw" means all parts, except the seeds, of the opium
poppy after mowing; "preparation" means a preparation, admixture, extract or other
substance containing any proportion of a dangerous drug specified in any of paragraphs 1 to 7 of Part I of the First Schedule:
"prepared opium" includes any preparation of opium, and any substance of which opium forms an ingredient, which is used or intended to be used, or is capable of being used, for smoking, inhaling, ingestion or injection;
"prescribed hospital" means a hospital maintained by the Crown and a hospital or institution specified in the Second Schedule: "prescription" means a prescription for a single individual given by a registered medical practitioner for the purposes of medical treatment, by a registered dentist for the purposes of dental treatment or by an approved veterinary surgeon for the purposes of animal treatment;
"raw opium" means any kind of opium not prepared for smoking, inhaling, ingestion or injection and also means the leaves or wrappings in which raw opium has been wrapped, but does not include opium dross;
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"registered dentist" means a dentist registered under the Dentists Registration Ordinance by reason of his holding the qualifi- cations specified in paragraph (a) or (b) of section 8 of that Ordinance;
"ship" includes every description of vessel used in navigation or
for the carriage or storage of goods on water: "sister" includes any person performing the duties of a nursing sister and any person, whatever the title of the office which he holds, performing duties of the kind performed by a nursing sister: "trafficking", in relation to a dangerous drug, includes importing into Hong Kong, exporting from Hong Kong, procuring, supplying, or otherwise dealing in or with the dangerous drug. and "traffic in a dangerous drug" shall be construed accord- ingly;
“unlawful" or "unlawfully", in relation to trafficking in or maru- facturing a dangerous drug, means otherwise than under and in accordance with this Ordinance or a licence issued there- under:
"wholesale dealer" means a person who carries on the business of selling dangerous drugs to persons who buy to sell again, and "wholesale desling" shall be construed accordingly. (2) For the purposes of this Ordinance, a person shall be deemed to be in possession of a dangerous drug or a pipe, equip- ment or apparatus, as the case may be, if it is in his actual custody or is held by some other person subject to his control or for him and on bis behalf.
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(1) For the purposes of the First Schedule- (a) in the case of liquid preparations, percentages shall be calculated on the basis that a preparation containing one per cent of any substance means a preparation in which one gramme of the substance if a solid, or one millilitre of the substance if a liquid, is contained in every one hundred millilitres of the preparation, and so in propor- tion for any greater or less percentage; and
(b) in the case of salts, percentages shall be calculated as in
respect of the anhydrous base.
(2) The specification in paragraph 1 of Part I of the First Schedule of a substance shall, if the existence of isomers of that substance is possible within the specific chemical designation thereof, be taken to comprehend the specification of any isomer of that substance whose existence is possible as aforesaid; and any other reference in the First Schedule to a substance specified in paragraph 1 of Part I thereof shall be construed accordingly.
(Cap. 156.)
$1, 1964/18JL. TER. XIX.
S.T. 1964/181, r. 30.
Calculation of percentages for purposes of First Schedule, and extended meaning of "substance".
1965, c. 15, m. 24021.
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