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When the Shanghai Commission met the law
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in force in the Straits Settlemonts regulating the importation, sale and use of morphia, cocaine ac. the Deleterious Drugs Ordinance 1907. Under its provisions no deleterious drug could be imported or exported to the Federated Malay States without writ- ten permission from the Principal Civil Ledical Officer; and no person except a medical practitioner or chemist licensed by the Principal Civil Ledical Officer could prescribe or deal in the drugs. The administration or possession of such drugs by anyone not licensed or not acting under the instructions of a licensed person was a punishable offence.
In October 1910 the ordinance was repealed by the Deleterious Drugs ordinance 1910 which (1) vested the exclusive right of importing and exporting such drugs in the Principal Civil Ledical officer; (2) compelled medical practitioners and chemists to order drugs only through the Principal Civil Medical Officer and to submit to examination by that officer the packages received as a result of their order; (3) extended the system of licensing to veterinary surgeons and dentists. For the purposes of the Ordinance deleterious drugs include
(1) liorphine and all salts of morphine and preparations containing morphine and any alkaloid or salt of an alkaloid of opium and any solution or preparation thereof, but not including any preparation
of opium or any preparation in which opium forms an
ingredient
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