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HONGKONG,

No. 23 or 1909.

An Ordinance to amend and consolidate the Laws

relating to Opium and its Compounds,

LS

F. D. LUGARD,

Governor.

[2nd September, 1909.]

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Comicil thereof, as follows:-

376

S.C.

33780

REC ¡FEG 14 OCT09

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Opium Onlin- Short title. auce, 1909.

2. In this Ordinance unless the context otherwise re- Interprel- quires,→→

Raw Opium" means any kind of opium not pre- pared for smoking, chewing, swallowing or injecting and includes the leaves or wrappings in which opium balls have been wrapped:

"Prepared Opium" means any preparation of opina or any preparation in which opium forms an ingredient which preparation is used or intended to be used for smoking, but it does not include drogs opium or any of the alkaloids or sults of the alkaloids of opium:

The subjecting of opina of any kind to any degree of artificial bent, for any purpose whatever, shall be taken to be the preparing of such opium :

"Opium Dross" means the residuum produced by smoking prepared opium:

"Dross Opium" means a preparation of opium iu which opinn drosa is an ingredient:

"Halun" means the residuum produced by smoking dross opium :

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Compound of Opiumi meaus any substance, except opinin prepared for smoking purposes, which contams any constituent or alkaloid or salt of an alkaloid of opinu:

The presence of meconie neid and of muc other con- stituent of opium shalt he considered to be proof of the presence of opium :

"Morphine" includes morphin and all salts of mor- phine and any solution or proparation containing mor- phine or its salts :

"Opinin" includes raw opium, prepared opium, opium dross, dross opino, halan, compounds of opium and morphine:

"Chest of Opium" means a package with the raw opium contained in it of the size and character gener- ally used by merchants for the importation of raw opium:

"Loose Opium" means all raw opium found or discovered otherwise than in a chest full of one quality of raw opinn

"The Colony

"includes the waters thereof and the additional territories acquired under the Convention dated the 9th day of June, 1898, between Her Majesty Queen Victoria and His Majesty the Emperor of China for the enlargement of the limits of the Colony including the City of Kowloom :

ation of terms.