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However, the remainder of the opium for sale may be transferred to another person in the saine business within the period mentioned in this article.
Art. 6. The report, the delivery, and the request for repurchase, mentioned in article 5 should be made by the head of the family in the case of death; when the head of the family is undecided or absent, by the deceased's successor; when the successor is undecided or absent, by the person administering the deceased's property.
Art. 7. When a Local Government Office has appointed or cancelled the appoint- ment of a wholesale vendor of opium for medicinal use, and when there has been a change in the address or name of a wholesale vendor, or when one has given up business or dies, it should give notice of his name and address.
Art. 8. Pharmacists and druggists, whether wholesale or not, should enter in their books and preserve for ten years the quantity of opium received and disposed of and the name and address, with the date, of the vendor from whom they bought it. However, for opium given by a pharmacist to a patient in accordance with a physician's prescription slip it is unnecessary to make the entries mentioned in this article.
Art. 9. A wholesale vendor of opium for medicinal use should prepare a statement of the opium for medicinal use received and disposed of each year, and should send it in to the Local Government Office within a month after the close of the
year.
A Local Government Office should prepare a statement of the opium for medicinal use received and disposed of each year, and should make a report to the Ministry of the Interior within two months after the close of the year.
Art. 10, Persons who have infringed articles 4 and 9 are liable to a fine of not more than 10 yen.
Art. 11. Persons who have infringed articles 5 and 8 are liable to a fine of not more than 25 yea.
Supplementary Rule.
Art. 12. These regulations take effect from the 1st April, 1897.
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Art. 4. Companies should provide account books and specify matters relating to purchases of opium for pharmaceutical use, to the method of use and to the sale of manufactured goods. The account books mentioned in the preceding paragraph should be preserved for three years.
Art. 5. Opium for pharmaceutical use may not be transferred.
Art. 6. The Minister of the Interior may direct companies to report on the conditions of manufacture and sale of articles manufactured from opium as raw material, or may cause officials to inspect these conditions.
Art. 7. When a company abandons the manufacture and sale of articles manufactured from opium as raw material, or when a company is dissolved or the designation of the Minister of the Interior has been cancelled, it should apply within ten days to the head of the Tokyo Hygienic Laboratory for the repurchase of the balance of the opium for pharmaceutical purposes.
The head of the Tokyo Hygienic Laboratory decides the price of the repurchase mentioned in the preceding paragraph.
Art. 8. When a company has infringed the Opium Law or the provisions of this ordinance, or has not obeyed the orders of the Ministry of the Interior, the latter will cancel the designation of the company.
Supplementary Rule.
This ordinance comes into force from the day of its promulgation.
Enclosure 3 in No. 1.
Extract from the "Official Gazette" of August 14, 1917.
MATTERS RELATING TO THE SALE BY THE GOVERNMENT OF OPIUM FOR USE IN THE MANUFACTURE OF MEDICINE.
(Ordinance No. 6 of the Ministry of the Interior, August 14, 1917.)
(Translation.)
ARTICLE 1. Opium for pharmaceutical use is sold by the Government to only such joint stock companies which have for their object the manufacture and sale of morphine or other alkaloids of opium, or derivatives or manufactures thereof, as are designated by the Minister of the Interior.
Art. 2. Companies proposing to obtain the designation mentioned in the preceding article should apply to the Minister of the Interior furnishing the following facts :-
(1.) Articles of Association.
(2.) Location of the works.
(3.) Nature of the manufactured articles of which opium is the raw material, and the estimated quantity manufactured per annum.
(4.) The name and antecedents of the person carrying on the business and of the principal technical experts.
The sanction of the Minister of the Interior should be obtained in the event of an alteration being necessary in the facts under any of the foregoing sub-headings.
Art. 3. When it is proposed to obtain opium sold for pharmaceutical purposes by the Government the company should apply to the head of the Tokyo Hygienic Laboratory stating the quantity.
The head of the Tokyo Hygienic Laboratory fixes the price of sale mentioned in the preceding paragraph.
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