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No. 28 :-[3.2.13,~7.]

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BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to amend the Opium Ordinance,

1909.

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

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Opium Amend- short title. ment Ordinance, 1913,

8. This Ordinance shall not come into operation until Commence- the first day of March, 1913.

ment.

3. The Opium Ordinance, 1909, is hereby amended as Amenda follows:-

Ordinance

No. 28 of

(a.) in section 2 thereof by the deletion of the definition 1909.

Opium Divan" and by the substitution of the following definitions :-

of

"Opium Divan' means and includes any place opened, kept or used ;-

(1.) for the sale of prepared opium or dross

opium to be smoked in such place; or

(2.) for the smoking of prepared opium or dross opium where a fee or its equivalent is charged for such smoking or where any benefit or advantage whatever, direct or indirect, is derived by the keeper of such place in consequence of the smoking of prepared opium or dross opium in such place; or where the opium dross or halan produced by any person smoking in such place is collected, received or retained by any person other than the smoker ; 'Place' weans and includes any house, room, office, agency, boat, vehicle or vessel or any erec- tion movable or otherwise on any spot on land or

water,"

(b) by the repeal of section 9 thereof and by the substitution therefor of the following section:--

9.-(1.) The Governor-in-Council may appoint pre- Warehouses. mises to be called General Warehouses for the warehousing of raw opium.

(2.) The Superintendent may, with the approval of the Governor, grant licences for the warehousing of raw opium in places, other than General Warehouses, to be specified in such licences and to be called Licensed Warehouses. The Governor may at any time cancel the licence of any such ware- house and thereupon all raw opium ware- housed therein shall be removed as the Governor may direct.

(8.) The hoiling establishment of the Farmer shall be deemed to be a Licensed Warehouse under this section."

(4.) The Governor-in-Council shall have power to make regulations to regulate the man- agement of General Warehouses and to regulate the licensing and management of Licensed Warehouses.