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Enclosure 2 in No. 1.

No. 254.-Resolution made by the Legislative Council under Section 3 of "The Opium Ordinance, 1909" (No. 23 of 1909), as amended by Section 2 of "The Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1911" (Ordinance No. 39 of 1911), this 31st day of August, 1911.

WHEREAS by the provisions of section 3 of "The Opium Ordinance, 1909," as amended by section 2 of "The Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1911," it is provided as

follows:-

"No person shall import, or aid or abet the importation of, any raw opium into the colony or into the waters thereof, if such importation shall have been notified in the "Gazette" in pursuance of any resolution of the Legislative Council as being illegal":

It is therefore hereby resolved that a notification shall be male in the next issue of the Government "Gazette" that the importation of any kind of raw Indian opium, except opium covered by export permits from the Government of India, to the effect that it has been declared for shipment to or consumption in China is illegal.

This resolution shall not apply to any bond fide shipments of uncertificated Indian opium have been made from Calcutta or Bombay by a veseel sailing prior to the 21st August, 1911, and which have not been landed at any port after such shipment.

C. CLEMENTI, Clerk of Councils.

Council Chambers, August 31, 1911.

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further amended by the repeal of section 3 thereof and by the substitution therefore of the following section :-

"3.-(1.) No person

shall import, or aid or abet the importation of, any raw opium into the colony or into the waters thereof, if such importation shall have been notified in the 'Gazette' in pursuance of any resolution of the Legislative Council as being illegal.

(2.) The provisions of sub-section (1) of this section shall not apply to opium imported by or for the use of the opium farmer with the written consent of the superintendent of imports and exports previously obtained; and, further, shall not apply to opium brought into the colony or into the waters thereof on any steam ship under a bill of lading to some place to which such opium may by the laws of such place be lawfully imported, provided that such opium shall not be removed from such steam-ship whilst in the waters of the colony.

"(3.) No person shall import, or aid or abet the importation of, any loose opium into the colony or into the waters thereof."

3. The reference in section 8 (1) of "The Opium Ordinance, 1909," to section 3 thereof shall be deemed to be a reference to the new section 3 substituted by this ordinance.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 31st day of August, 1911.

C. CLEMENTI, Clerk of Councils. Assented to by his Excellency the Governor, the 31st day of August, 1911.

WARREN BARNES, Colonial Secretary.

Enclosure 3 in No. 1.

Resolution.

No. 259. It is hereby notified for general information and in pursuance of the resolution made by Legislative Council on the 31st day of August, 1911, that the importation of any kind of raw Indian opium, except opium covered by export permits from the Government of India to the effect that it has been declared for shipment to or consumption in China, is illegal;

Provided always that any bona fide shipments of uncertificated Indian opium which have been made from Calcutta or Bombay by a vessel sailing prior to the 21st August, 1911, and which have not been landed at any port after such shipment, shall not be illegal.

WARREN BARNES, Colonial Secretary,

Colonial Secretary's Department, September 1, 1911.

Enclosure 4 in No. 1.

Ordinance dated August 31, 1911.

HONG KONG

No. 39 of 1911.

An Ordinance to further amend "The Opium Ordinance, 1909.”

(L.S.)

F. D. LUGARD, Governor.

[31st August, 1911.]

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :--

1. This ordinance may be cited as "The Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1911.” 2. "The Opium Ordinance, 1909," as amended by "The Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1910," and by "The Opium Amendment (No. 2) Ordinance, 1910," is hereby

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