CO129-505-11 Deleterious Drugs Ordinance 1927- proposed amendments 27-10-1927 - 9-11-1927 — Page 29

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where travellers entering the United Kingdom are

authorised persons" under the egulations, no licences

are issued to them to import drugs; nor are they

permitted to take them out of the country unless they

can produce an import certificate issued by the appropriate

authority in the country to which they are proceeding.

This subsection should accordingly be deleted.

(f)

Section 5 (1

I have been unable to understand the reason

for the insertion of the words "except opium and chandu"

at the end of this sub-section. The importation and

exportation of chandu are already prohibited under the

Hague Convention and, (together with transit) under the Geneva Opium Agreement. The importation of opium (except by the Superintendant) is already prohibited under the Chandu Revenue Ordinance, and the exportation of opium is prohibited under the Gene va Opium Agreement. Unless therefore you have any special reason for retaining the se words in Section 5 (1), they should be deleted.

(g) Section 13 (2) and (3)..

(1) I have to point out that Article 15 of the

Convention clearly specifies the production of an expart authorisation or diversion certificate. Accordingly, (in spite of the fact that, as indicated in my te le gram of the 19th of December, the production of an import certificate would be a more certain safeguard than the production of an export authorisation) it is not permissible under the terms of the Convention, to allow the production of an import certificate as an alternative

to an export authorisation or a diversion certificate. Section 13 (2) should be amended accordingly.

(2)