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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 25, 1909.

7. Section 12b of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Addition of amended as follows:-

a sub-section to section 12b

(a.) by the insertion of the figure (1) at the of the Princi

beginning of the section; and

(b) by the addition of the following sub-

section:

pal Ordin-

ance.

tion.

(2.) Every importer for exportation Declaration from the Colony of morphine or any ou importa- compound of opium shall on the importation thereof truly declare before the said Superintendent of Imports and Exports the place or port of destination of such morphine

as to break-

or compound of opium and no such importer or other person shall there- Prohibitioni after break bulk or otherwise gain ing bulk &c. access to the same prior to the ex- portation thereof.

Any such importer or other person violat- Offence.

ing the provisions of this sub-section

shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.”

8. Section 12c of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Amendment amended as follows:-

(a) by the substitution of the words

dollars for the words "thirty dollars the fourth and fifth lines thereof.

of section 12e of the

ten Principal

in Ordinance.

(b.) by the substitution of the words "this section for the words "the Principal Ordinance and this Ordinance" in the fifteenth and sixteenth lines thereof.

9. Section 12d of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Amendment amended by deleting the words "and the Opium of section Farmer may

in the first and second lines thereof. 12d of the

•

Principal Ordinance.

10. Sections 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17 of the Principal Repeal and Ordinance are hereby repealed and the following re-enactment sections are substituted therefor :-

"13. No person shall open, keep or

opium divan.

of sections 13. 14, 15, 16 and 17 of the Principal Ordinance.

use any Prohibition

of Opium Divans. Penalty for

14. The Keeper of an opium divan shall on

summary conviction be liable to a penalty keeping not exceeding five hundred dollars.

divan.

15. Every person who in any opium divan Penalty for smokes prepared opium shall on summary smoking in conviction be liable to a penalty not exceed-

ing twenty-five dollars.

divan.

divan has

therein.

Justice of

Peace to isse warrant to

enter.

16. A person found in any opium divan or Presumptia

found escaping therefrom on the occasion that persva of its being entered under this Ordinance found in shall be presumed until the contrary is becn proved to be or to have been smoking smoking prepared opium or dross opium therein. 17. Whenever it appears to any Justice of the Power of

Peace upon the affirmation or declaration of any person that there is reasonable cause to believe that any place is an opium divan such Justice of the Peace may by his warrant directed to any Police Officer empower such officer by day or by night to enter and if necessary to break into such place and to arrest any persons and to seize any prepared opium or dross opium and implements for the smoking of prepared opium or dross opium, as may be found therein, and such prepared opium, dross opium and implements shall and are hereby declared to be forfeited to the Crown,"

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