THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 27, 1909.
(2.) The oans of proving the exception shall lie on the. person furnishing morphine as aforesaid.
Provided that this section shall not apply to the furnish- ing of morphine for the purpose of bonâ-fide exportation.
Peace to
50. It shall be lawful for any Police Officer, duly au- Powerto thorized by warrant of any Justice of the Peace (which Justice of shall be in the form in Schedule C to this Ordinance), authorize with such assistauts as may be necessary, to enter and, if entry of necessary, to break into any place which such Justice of house, &c., the Peace may, from the information upon oath, affirmation where the or declaration of any person, or of his own knowledge, have injection of morphine is reasonable grounds to suspect and believe to be a place kept carried on, or used for the injection of morphine contrary to the provi- &c. sions of this Ordinance or where such injection is carried Schedule C. on, and to arrest any persons who may be found therein and whom he may suspect to have acted or to be acting in contravention of this Ordinance, and to seize all morphine, hypodermic syringes, and other appliances which may be found there and which are capable of being used for the injection of morphine, and, on conviction of the offender, or in any case, if the Magistrate so orders, they shall be for- feited to His Majesty, his heirs and successors, and be dealt with as the Magistrate may direct.
51.-(1.) It shall be lawful for the Principal Civil Medical Conditional Officer to grant licences to such persons as he may think licence for fit for importing for sale or use within the Colony, preparing, importing, manufacturing, or dealing in morphine and compounds of co-
phine and opium, provided that the total number of licences which compounds may be granted and the conditions of such licences shall be of opium for determined by regulations made by the Governor-in-Conneil sale or use and published in The Gazette.
(2.) Any person so importing, manufacturing or dealing in morphine or any compound of opium without such licence
shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.
(3.) Any such licence may be revoked by the Governor- in-Council at his discretion without assigning cause.
(4.) There shall be paid for each such licence an annual fee of twenty-five dollars which shall be awarded to the Opium Farmer, and the holder of any such licence shall pay to the Opium Farmer a royalty calculated at the rate of ten dollars per tael of morphine and four dollars per tacl of opium which royalty may be recovered by the Opium Farmer in a summary way before a Magistrate.
(5.) If the holder of any such licence does not comply with the conditions of the licence he shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.
within the Colony.
52. No person shall export morphine or any compound Prohibition of opium from the Colony to China or to any country of exporta- which prohibits or restricts the import of morphine or of tion to such compound of opium, except in such quantities and China, etc. subject to such regulations as may be prescribed by the country to which such export is intended, provided that the names of all countries which prohibit or restrict the import of morphine or of compounds of opium and the regu- lations prescribed by such countries as aforesaid shall be notified in The Gazette.
53.-(1.) It shall be lawful for the Superintendent to Conditional grant licences to such persons as he may think fit to import licence for for export and to export morphine and compounds of opium exporting, from the Colony to such countries as do not prohibit the phine and import of morphine and compounds of opium.
compounds
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(2.) Any such licence may be revoked by the Governor- of opium to in-Council at his discretion without assigning cause.
(3.) There shall be paid to the Government for each such licence an annual fee of two dollars.
(4.) The conditions of such licences shall be determined by regulations made by the Governor-in-Council and pub- lished in The Gazette.
(5.) Any person importing for export or exporting mor- phine or any compound of opium to or from the Colony without such licence shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.
(6.) If the holder of any such licence does not comply with the conditions of the licence he shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.
certain countries.
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