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Report on an Ordinance entitled an ordinance to amend and
consolidate the Laws relating to Opium.
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1. The existing agreement with the Opium Farmer expires on the 1st. March, 1914, and as it had been decided that the Government should on the termination of tais contract assume entire control and management of the Opium business hitherto lensed out, it was thought desirable to re-cast the law which obtained relative to Opium in order to adapt it to the altered conditions which would result in conse- -quence of the change.
The law existing prior to this Ordinance relating to Opium is conte ined in the Opium Ordinance, 1909, as printed in the Revised Edition of the Laws of longong issued in 1913, as amended by the Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1913 (Ordinance No. 2 of 1913). The existing Ordinance, after defining the weaning of certain phrases, war divided into four main parts:-
Firstly that which dealt with Raw Opium:
Secondly that which dealt with Prepared Opium and Dross Opium: Thirdly that which dealt with Lorphine and Compounds of
Morphine: and
Lastly that which dealt with the administrative and legel procedure and those penal provisions which are necessary for the execution or enforcement of the law. A not inconsiderable proportion of these Ordinances dealt with the establishment and maintenance of the relations between the Government and the Opium Farmer in connection with the latter's exclusive leased privileges. Broadly speaking this new Ordinance followr the existing law in principle and in arrangement, but, be- -sides omitting much of the old law which related solely to the rights enjoyed by the Opium Fermer, it introduces certain
amplifications
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