Order No.
16
of 1912.
COLONY OF SOUTHERN NIGERIA.
Order made under The Customs Tariff (Amendment) Ordinance, 1911." It is hereby ordered by the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Southern Nigeria, with the consent of the Legislative Council thereof, that the Third Schedule to The Customs Tariff (Amendment) Ordinance he amended as follows:-
After item 16 of the said Schedule, the following items are inserted :-
17 Raw opium, 18 Prepared opium. day of
Ordered this
Approved by resolution of the Legislative Council this
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1912.
1912.
Governor and Commander-in-Chief.
day of
Clerk of the Legislative Council.
No. 28.
GOLD COAST.
THE ACTING GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(No. 331.) SIR,
(Received May 27, 1912.)
[Answered by No. 68.]
Government House, Accra, 9th May, 1912. WITH reference to the second paragraph of my despatch, No. 238, of the 11th of April last,* on the subject of the Convention for suppressing the abuse of opium, I have the honour to submit, herewith, two copies of a draft Bill 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 opium, morphine, cocaine, and similar drugs in the Gold Coast Colony."
I also attach a memorandum on the subject drawn up by the Attorney-General. 2. In view of the advantages, in dealing with international conventions, of enacting uniform legislation in the British West African Colonies and Protectorates, I shall be glad to learn whether the Bill transmitted with this despatch meets with your approval.
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Prepared opium" means the product of raw opium, obtained by a series of special operations, especially by dissolving, boiling, roasting, and fermentation, designed to transform it into an extract suitable for consumption; and includes dross and all other residues remaining when opium has been smoked.
"Medicinal Opium" means raw opium which has been heated to 60° centi- grade and contains not less than 10 per cent. of morphine, whether or not it be powdered or granulated or mixed with indifferent materials. Morphine means the principal alkaloid of opium, having the chemical
formula C,, H1, N Ö,.
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Heroine" means the diacetyl morphine, having the formula C, H,, N 05. "Cocaine" means the principal alkaloid of the leaves of Erythroxylon Coca,
having the formula C1, II N O,.
C
'Similar drugs" include--
(a) all preparations whether officinal or non-officinal as well as the so-called anti-opium remedies, which contain more than 0.2 per cent. of morphine, or more than 0.1 per cent. of cocaine.
(b) heroine, its salts and preparations containing more than 0.1 per
cent, of heroine,
(c) all new derivatives of morphine, of cocaine, or of their respective salts, and every other alkaloid of opium which has been demon- strated by scientific research to be liable to similar abuse and in its abuse productive of like ill-effects.
Opium" when used without any qualifying epithet, shall be taken to include
Raw opium," Medicinal opium,"
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· Cocaine," and "Similar Drugs,'
"Store
1
Morphine," Heroine,"
means any place appointed by the Governor for the storage of opium on its arrival at any port in the Colony.
3. It shall not be lawful to import into the Colony any prepared opium.
4.
It shall not be lawful to import any opium into the Colony except by sea.
5.
All opium imported into the Colony shall be deposited, at the cost, risk, and peril of the person or persons importing the same, in such store as shall be appointed by the Governor for that purpose.
Importation
of prepared opium un- lawful. Importation
by sea only.
pium to be deposited in store.
6. No opium shall be delivered or withdrawn from a store except on the Opium with. written authority of the Principal Medical Officer or Medical Officer authorised by Principal him as hereinafter provided.
rawn on
Officer's authority.
Medical
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
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I have, &c.,
H. BRYAN,
Deputy Governor.
Enclosure 1 in No. 28.
A BILL intituled 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 Gold Coast Colony.
1912.) Whereas the Government of the Gold Coast Colony hath agreed to be bound by the International Opium Convention signed at The Hague on the 23rd of January,
1912 :
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And whereas it is expedient to regulate the importation and the storage and disposal of opium, morphine, cocaine and similar drugs;
Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of the Gold Coast Colony, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :--
This Ordinance may be cited as " The Opium Ordinance, 1912."
1.
2.
In this Ordinance the term :---
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Raw opium means the spontaneously coagulated juice obtained from the capsules of the papaver somniferum" which has only been submitted
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to the necessary manipulations for packing and transport.
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7. The Principal Medical Officer may authorise in writing any Government Principal Medical Officer at any port in the Colony to sign the authority required by this officer may Ordinance for the withdrawal of opium.
8.
It shall not be lawful to authorise any withdrawal of opium from a store except to registered medical practitioners and dentists and to licensed druggists.
9.
delegate authority.
Withdrawals
only by Regis. tered Medical Practitioners,
&c.
be kept in a
Where any opium imported into the Colony is, without the proper authority, Opium not to found in the possession of any person or kept in a place other than a store, such place other person or the occupier of such place, unless he can prove that the same was deposited than a store there without his knowledge or consent, and also the owner of, or other person guilty Authority. of keeping, the opium shall be guilty of an offence.
without
10. Any person contravening the provisions of any of the preceding sections Penalty for shall, on summary conviction before a District Commissioner, be liable to a penalty contra- not exceeding one hundred pounds or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, vention. for any period not exceeding twelve months, and the District Commissioner may order any prepared opium, or opium unlawfully imported or withdrawn from the store, to be forfeited to His Majesty.
11. It shall be lawful for a District Commissioner, if satisfied by informa. Search tion on oath that any opium or prepared opium is being unlawfully kept, conveyed, warrant. landed or sold in contravention of this Ordinance at any place, whether a building or not, or in any ship or vehicle, to grant a warrant to enter at any time, and if needs be by force, on Sundays as well as on any other days, the place, ship, or vehicle named in such warrant, and every part thereof, and to examine the same, and to
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