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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 27,

1909.

(b.) aids or abets any other person in any such offence or in the attempt to commit any such offence, shall, on summary conviction, be liable to the same punishment and penalties as if he had been guilty of the actual offence.

Compen- sation for unsuccessful search.

Prohibition of public

interested in farm.

Miscellaneous Provisions.

91. If any unsuccessful search for opium has been made under section 67 or section 68 of this Ordinance by the request or at the instigation of the Opium Farmer, and there is no reason to suppose that any opium in contravention of this Ordinance has been thrown away or otherwise disposed of with a view to avoid detection, the Opium Farmer shall replace and repack any goods which may have been unpacked by reason of such search, and shall make good any damage which he may have caused thereby; and the amount of money claimed for any such damage shall be adjudicated upon by a Magistrate and shall be recoverable as a civil debt ander the provisions of any Ordinance for the time being in force relating to the jurisdiction of Magistrates and the practice and procedure before them in relation to offences punishable on summary conviction,

92. Persous employed in any department of the public service, and persons in their employ, or any of them, are officer being disqualified from becoming or being in any way possessed of or directly or indirectly interested in any privilege or licence under this Ordinance or the profits thereof, whether at law or in equity and whether in their own right respect- ively or in the right of another, and from suing for or in respect of or in any way enforcing the same.

Repeal of byelaws

under Ordinance No. 1 of 1903.

Commence- ment of Ordinance.

93. All byelaws governing opium divans made under the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance 1903 (No. 1 of 1903) are hereby repealed.

94. This Ordinance shall come into force on the first day of March, 1910, and with effect from that day the Ordinances enumerated in Schedule D of this Ordinance and all regulations made thereunder are hereby repealed.

Fection 5.

Scetion 9.

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SCHEDULE A.

FORMS.

FORM NO. 1.

Certificate of Sale.

Date,

eatties

No.

Sold this day to

Malwa, or

per ship

balls Bengal,

to be exported by him to

This certificate shall not be valid after noon of the

FORM No. 2.

Chop.

Requisition for Landing.

To the Superintendent of Imports and Exports,

Sir,

arrived on the

Hongkong.

Please issue a permit to land from the

day of

1

chests of opium, numbered and marked as below.

To be landed on

day, the

day of

which

wharf and stored at [godown, shop or house].

1

at

+

Dated the

day of

(Signed.)

Importer.

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