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Ameindent el

Third Schedule.

(c) do or offer to do an act preparatory to or for the purpose of trafficking in any substance represented or held out by him to be a dangerous drug but which is not in fact a dangerous drug.

(2) Subsection (1) shall apply whether or not the sub- slando represented or held out to be a dangerous drug is in Hong Kong or is to be imported into Hong Kong or is ascertained," appropriated or in existence.

(3) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be Diablo-

(4) on conviction on indictment, to a fine of $500,000

and to imprisonment for 7 years; and

(b) on ammary conviction, to altas of $100,000 and

to imprisonment for 1 year.

(4) No prosecution for an offence under this section shall be instituted without the consent in writing of the Attorney General, but this subsection shall not prevent) the arrest, or the issue of a warrant for the arrest, of a person for any such offence, or the remand in custody of on bail of a parada charged with such an offence.".

4. Item in the Third Schedule to the principal Ordinance ią amended by inserting at the top of the column headed "Other offences of which defendant may be convicted" the following-

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"Trafficking in a substance represented or held 'out to be a dangerous drug (section 4A)".

Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this/90 day of July 1980.

No. 38 or 1980

Clerk to the

Council.

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be aptrue and correctly printed copy of the said bII.

Clerk to the Législepé Council.

I assent.

Governor.