12353-1909-Ordinances-passed-and-assented-to--Opium-No-23 — Page 4

636 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 3, 1909.

Keeping of register by licensee.

Penalties,

Permit for landing of chests of opium.

Schedule A: Form No. 2:

Form No. 3.

Movement and export of chests of opium. Schedule A:

Form No. 4; Form No. 5.

Memoran-

duni of raw opium ex- ported, and duplicate.

Removal and

7. It shall be the duty of every licensee under section 4 of this Ordinance to keep a register of the particulars of purchase and sale, in such form as the Governor may from time to time order.

8.-(1) Every person who offends against the provi- sions of any of sections 3, 4 and 6 of this Ordinance shall, on summary conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to a penalty not exceeding one thousand dollars and the forfeiture of the raw opium, or the Magistrate may order a period of imprisonment, with or without hard labour, in lion of a portion of the penalty, provided the whole imprisonment does not exceed six months.

(2.) Notwithstanding the penalty for the breach of conditions to which a licensee under section 4 of this Ordinance is subject, it shall be lawful for a Magistrate to impose on such licensee a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars for a breach of any such conditions in case it may not be deemed advisable to proceed for the full penalty under the licensec's bond.

9. Every person importing into the Colony any raw opium shall forthwith report the same to an officer appointed by the Governor, named the Superintendent of Imports and Exports, and hereinafter called the Superintendent, giving the number of chests, and shall, before landing such raw opium or any part thereof, send or cause to be sent to the Superintendent a requisition, in the Form No. 2 in Schedule A to this Ordinance, giving the particulars therein required, whereupon the Superintendent shall furnish a permit, in the Form No. 3 in the said Schedule, authorizing the raw opium to be landed and stored, and such permit shall be exhibited to the Opium Farmer or his agent, and shall be signed by him or his agent, and shall not be used or acted upon until it has been so signed.

10.--(1.) Every person moving raw opium for exportation shall, before doing so, send to the Superintendent a requisition, in the Form No. 4 in Schedule A to this Ordinance, furnishing the particulars therein required, whereupon the Superintendent shall grant au export permit, in the Form No. 5 in the said Schedule, authorizing the said raw op um to be exported.

(2.) The owner or shipper shall cause such permit to be exhibited to the Opium Farmer or his agent, and such permit shall be sigued by him or his agent, and shall not be used or acted upon until it has been so signed.

11. (1.) The Superintendent shall furnish the master of every ship carrying raw opium for export with a memorandum containing the particulars set forth in the Foran No. 5 in Schedule A to this Ordinance, and no vessel carrying raw opium shall, subject to the provisions of section 13 of this Ordnance depart from the Colony without such memoran- dum.

(2.) The Superintendent shall also, in the case of a steamship bound for a port in China, forward a duplicate of such memorandum, by post, to the Commissioner of Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs at the port óf destina- tion, and, in the case of a junk or steam launch or motor boat. he shall forward the said duplicate memo- randum to the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Cor- poration at ilongkong, for transmission to the Com- missioner of Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs controlling the Customs Station through which such raw opium is to pass.

12. Every person who moves a chest or chests of transhipment opium from one place to another within the Colony or tran- of raw opium, ships such chest or chests within the waters thereof shall, Schedule A : before doing so, furnish to the Superintendent a requisition Form No. 6; pro erly filled up, in the Form No, 6 in Schedule A to this Ordinance, whereupon the Superintendent shall furnish a Form No. 7. permit, in the Form No. 7 in the said Schedule, authorizing the removal or transhipment of the said raw opium, which permit shall be exhibited to the Opium Farmer or his agent, and shall be signed by him or his agent, and shall not be used or acted upon until it has been so signed.

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