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[10 & 11 GEO. 5.] Dangerous Drugs Act, 1920.
[CH. 46.]
CHAPTER 46.
An Act to regulate the Importation, Exportation, Manu- A.1). 1920,
facture, Sale and Use of Opium and other Dangerous Drugs.
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[16th August 1920.]
E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-
PART I.
RAW OPIUM.
1. It shall not be lawful for any person to import or bring into the United Kingdom any raw opium except under licence and into approved ports.
Restriction ou importa. tion of raw opium.
on exportn+ tion of raw
2. (1) It shall not be lawful for any person to export Restriction from the United Kingdom any raw opium except under licence and from approved ports and except in packages marked opium. in the prescribed manner with an indication of the contents thereof.
(2) If at any time the importation of raw opium into a foreign country is prohibited or restricted by the laws of that country, there shall, while that prohibition or restriction is in force, be attached to every licence which is issued by a Secretary of State under this Act authorising the export of raw opium from the United Kingdom, such conditions as appear to him necessary for preventing or restricting, as the case may be, the exportation of raw opium from the United Kingdom to that country during such time as the importation of raw Opium into that country is so prohibited or restricted, and any
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