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(2) The proviso to Section 13 (2), as drafted, would appear to permit the Colonial Secretary to allow

drugs from a country which is a party to the Convention, to onter the Colony in transit unaccompanied by an export

authorisation or a diversion certificate. I am advised

that the dispensing power contained in the provi30

should be limited to powers allowed by the Convention.

I accordingly sugest, for your consideration, the

substitution of a proviso on the following lines:-

"Provided that, in the case of a consignment

of deleterious drugs brought into the Colony in the

course of transit from a country which is not a party

to the International Opium Convention signed at Geneva

on the 19th of February 1925, it shall be lawful for the

Colonial Secretary on the production to him of an import

certificate issued by the appropriate authority in the

country to which the drugs are consigned, to declare that, notwithstanding the provisions of this sub-section, the production to the Superintendent of a duly

authenticated copy of the export authorisation or of a

diversion certificate issued in respect of such drugs,

is dispensed with, and thereafter such drugs shall not

be deemed, by reason only of the non-production to the

Superintendent of one of the said documents, to have been

imported contrary to this Ordinance."

(3) The words "an Assistant Superintendent

of Government Monoplies at Penang or Malacca or to the

Resident at Labuan" appear to have been omitted between

the words "Singapore or" and the words "as the case may

be" in Section 13 (3).

(h)

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