HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
Objects and Reasons.
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The "Objects and Reasons" for the Bill were stated as follows:-
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The object of this Ordinance is to delete from the principal Ordinance all the provisions relating to the system of supplying, in certain privileged districts, unmetered water to tenement houses by means of what were known as "rider mains," thus implementing the Resolution which was passed by the Legislative Council on the 18th August, 1932.
DANGEROUS DRUGS ORDINANCE, 1932.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL moved the first reading of a Bill intituled "An Ordinance to amend and consolidate the law relating to dangerous drugs." He said. The necessity to amend this law is imposed on us by Geneva Convention Number Two of 1931. The opportunity is taken to consolidate various ordinances in the manner set out in the Table attached to the Bill. The principal clause (Number Five) sets out the names of dangerous drugs to which the Ordinance applies.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded and the Bill was read a first time.
Objects and Reasons.
The "Objects and Reasons" for the Bill were stated as follows:-
1. In 1931 a conference was held at Geneva for the purpose of supplementing the provisions of the International Opium Convention, known as "The Hague Convention," signed at the Hague on the 23rd January, 1912, and of the International Opium Convention, known as "The Geneva Convention (No. 1)," signed at Geneva on the 19th February, 1925.
2. As a result of the conference, a convention, for the purpose aforesaid and known as "The Geneva Convention (No. 2)," was signed at Geneva on behalf of His Majesty on the 13th July 1931.
3. By Article 11 of the Geneva Convention (No. 2) it is provided that in the event of the Health Committee of the League of Nations, after consulting the Permanent Committee of the Office International d'Hygiene Publique in Paris, deciding that any product obtained from any of the phenanthrene alkaloids of opium or from the ecgonine alkaloids of the coca leaf, (not being a product which was on the 13th July, 1931, being used for medical or scientific purposes) is, or can be converted into, a drug capable of producing addiction, the Health Committee should notify the Secretary-General of the League of Nations of their decision. The Secretary-General was required to communicate the decision to the parties to the Convention, who undertook to apply to that product the measures of control specified in the Convention.
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