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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 3, 1909.
Schedule B: Form No. 2.
Lapse of certificate.
Power of
(4.) If any person is charged with the possession of prepared opium without a valid certificate, be shall not be entitled to produce or put in evidence, or Cause to be produced or put in evidence any cortificate, as covering the prepared opium in respect of which he is charged, prior in date to the last certificate granted to him, unless he has received permission from the Opium Farmer to keep or store prepared opium, which permission shall appear on the certificate produced or put in evidence.
(5.) When there is no Opium Farmer the certificate shall be in the Form No. 2 in Schedule B to this Ordinance.
(6.) No person shall sell any prepared opium or dross opium to any female or to any person being nuder sixteen years of age.
40. No certificate granted by the Opium Farmer under section 39 of this Ordinance or by any licensee under the Opium Farmer shall be valid after noon of the third day from the date of the expiration of such Opium Farmer's privilege.
Regulations.
41. The Governor-in-Conneil may from time to time Governor-in- make rules for any of the following purposes :— Council to make rules.
Making of regulations relating to fines.
Prohibition of opium divans. Penalty for kreping divan.
Penalty for smoking in divan.
Presumption that person found in
divan has been smoking therein.
Power of
Justice of Peaec to
issue warrant
to enter.
(a.) To determine the quality of prepared opium and dross opium to be sold by the Opium Farmer or Dross Farmer or their licensees.
(6.) To determine the packages and receptacles in which prepared opium and dross opium shall be sold to the public and the quantities to be contained therein.
(c.) To prescribe the keeping of such books and registers and the making of such returns by the Opium Farmer or the Dross Farmer as may he considered necessary or desirable to permit of a thorough investigation being made by the Government of the manner in which the farm business is conducted and of the profits or lossesS arising therefrom.
42.-(1.) The Governor-in-Council nay from time to time make, and, when made, alter, add to, or revoke, a scale of fines to be levied for breaches of any conditions, rules or regulations made under this Ordinance: Provided that such scale shall not come into effect until the same has been published in The Gazette.
(2.) Every fine provided by such scale shall be levied in the same manner as the fines imposed by this Ordinance.
Opium Dirans,
43. No person shall open, keep or use any opium divan.
summary
44. The keeper of an opium divan shall on conviction be liable to a penalty not exceeding five hun dred dollars.
45. Every person who in any opium divan smokes pre- pared opinm or dross opium shall on summary conviction be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars.
46. A person found in any opium divan or found escaping therefrom on the occasion of its being entered under this Ordinance shall be presumed mutil the contrary is proved to be or to have been smoking prepared opium or dross opium therein.
47. Whenever it appears to any Justice of the l'ence upon the oath, 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 opian and implements shall and are hereby declared to be forfeited to the Crown.
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