CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912 — Page 559

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by the Principal Civil Medical Officer to qualified medical men and veterinary surgeons, and to registered

vederalas. It can only be supplied to other persons on registration as habitual consumers. No person could be registered except on production of satisfactory

evidence that at the time when the law was passed

he was a habitual consumer, together with evidence of

the amount which he was accustomed to consume and

the manner and form of consumption. Thus the opium

consumers in Ceylon are a definite mmber, to which

additions cannot be made. The use of the drug except

for medicinal purposes must therefore disappear in

course of time. Further precautions against undue

use of opium are taken by limiting the ammual amount

allowed to a registered consumer or vederala to

eight ounces.

The importation, possession or sale of opium except by the authorised officer (the Principal

Civil Medical Officer) and for the purposes described

above is illegal. It has therefore not been found

necessary to impose any restriction on the exportation of opium since the amount imported depends on the

purely local consumption the maximum amount of which

can be ascertained.

The conditions in the Malay Peninsula and

in Hongkong appear to preclude for the present any system of registration of opium consumers, the object

of which is to compile a list to which no addition

can be made: the constant changes in the population

of Hongkong and the regular immigration of Chinese into the Malay Peninsula prevents the introduction

since

of such a system/under present conditions a largo

proportion of newcomers are consumers of opium.

Both