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EASTERN No. 114.

[Second Edition.]

RESTRICTIONS ON THE OPIUM AND MORPHINE TRAFFIC IN THE EASTERN COLONIES.

1. Weihaiwei.

By Ordinance No. 1 of 1969, no person may import, export, possess, sell, or buy any opium including morphine) or other hypnotic (including cocaine), except that qualified medical men and chemists may deal in them for bona fide medicinal purposes, and that a medical officer may license certain persons to sinoke or otherwise use opium if deprivation of the drug would injure their health. Such licensed consumers are registered; no person under age, and no fonale (except with the special sanction of the Commissioner) may be licensed.

Opiam divans are prohibited.

2 Hong Kong.

The legislation is contained in the consolidating enactment of 1909, “The Opium Ordinance, 1909." Raw opium (., opium not prepared for smoking or other use) can only be imported on exported under permit from a Government officer countersigned by the opium farmer.

Loose Opium, la.. raw opium, in quantities less than one chest full of opium of the same quality, may not be imported at all; it can be sold or exported by persons possessing the requisite Govermaent licence.

Opium may only be prepared for consumption by the opinm farmer, and may be sold only by him and persons duly licensed under the Ordinance. No prepared opium There is no other restriction may be sold to a female or to a person under the age of 16.

on consumers. Opium divans are prohibited.

Morphine may only be used when prescribed by a medical man. morphine otherwise is punishable.

The injection of

Morphine may be imported, manufactured, and dealt in only by licensed persons. Export of morphine to countries prohibiting or restricting its importation is forbidden except in accordance with the regulations of those countries. Licences to export morphine are necessary.

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Under the Pharmacy Ordinance No. of 1908, as amended by Ordinances 9 and 29 of 1910, cocaine, its salts and preparations, can only be kept, dispensed, and sold by registered persons, and by Ordinance 9 of 1910 special powers are given in respect of search for, and forfeiture of, cocaine in all its forms.

3. Straits Settlements.

Opium and its compounds are dealt with under Ordinance No. 21 of 1909. Morphia, cocaine, and their compounds and derivatives are regulated by Ordinance No. 14 of 1907, the ** Deleterious Drugs Ordinance, 1907." Subject to any rules made under the Ordinance the exclusive right to import, export, prepare, sell, and retail opium is vested in the Government (so far no such rule has been made).

Chandu, ie., opium prepared for smoking, may be retailed, and divans may be kept by duly licensed persons.

Under rufes made by There are no provisions as to the registration of consumers. the Governor in Council it is an offence to sell or deliver chandu to any person other than an adult male, or to allow a female or child under 16 to enter or remain in a public smoking room (opium divan). The Ordinance does not apply to Labuan or to Christmas Island. Labuan is under the Opium Ordinance, 1906, and the rules made thereunder. With the exception that the farmer has the rights of import and sale now given to the Government, the provisions of this Ordinance are identical with those of the 1909 Ordinance.

Morphia, cocaine, their derivatives, and some other drugs may only be imported into the Colony or exported to a settlement or the Federated Malay States under written permit from the Principal Civil Medical Officer. Deleterious drugs can only be dealt in by licensed medical men and chemists and druggists. The furnishing, administration, or DOBRession of deleterious drugs by unlicensed persons or persons not acting under the direction of a licensed person is a punishable offence.

(17981-2.) Wt. 96610-442. 30. 11/10, D&S.

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