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BY THE KING.
A PROCLAMATION
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FOR PROHIBITING THE IMPORTATION OF COCAINE AND OPIUM INTO THE UNITED KINGDOM.
GEORGE R.I.
WHEREAS by Section forty-three of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876, it is provided that the importation of arms, ammunition, gunpowder or any other goods may be prohibited by Proclamation:
And whereas it is expedient that the importation into the United Kingdom of cocaine or of opium should be prohibited except as hereinafter provided:
Now, THEREFORE, We, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council in bursuance of the said Act and of all other powers enabling Us in that behalf,
hereby proclaim, direct and ordain as follows :—
As from and after this date, subject as hereinafter provided, all cocaine jl all opium shall be probibited to be imported into the United Kingdom:
Provided always, and it is hereby declared, that nothing in this Procla- nation shall apply to cocaine or opium imported under the licence of one of ur Principal Secretaries of State and in accordance with the provisions of uch licence.
The word "cocaine" includes all preparations, salts, derivatives, or admix- bres prepared therefrom or therewith and containing 0.1 per cent. (one part in
thousand) or more of the drug.
The word "opium" means raw opium, powdered or granulated opium, or bium prepared for smoking, and includes any solid or semi-solid mixture ontaining opium.
This Proclamation may be cited as the Cocaine and Opium (Prohibition of port) Proclamation, 1916.
Given at Our Court at Buckingham Palace, this Twenty-eighth day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand nine hundred and sixteen, and in the Seventh year of Our Reign.
GOD SAVE THE KING.
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Printed under the Authority or
His Majesty's Stationery Office
By HAYMAN, CHRISTY, & LILLI, LTD., London.
1916.
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