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SCHEDULE.

The articles herein described are hereby declared to be poisons for the purpose of this Ordinance :-

POISONS.

Coca and preparations, and cocaine, eucaine, benzocaine or anesthesin, holocaine, tropacocaine, orthoform, acoine, nirvanin, alypin, novocaine, stovaine, their salts, poisonous derivatives and preparations of such.

Memorandum.

This measure provides a procedure for searching for poison, as defined by clause 2, which there is good reason to believe is in the possession of any person contrary to the provisions of the Principal Ordinance. It is proposed in the first instance that the Ordinance shall apply only to cocaine, eucaine and like substances and their prepara- tions.

Clause 15 empowers the Governor-in-Council to make regulations for the purpose of controlling the sale, possession, importation and exportation of poison and it provides a specific penalty on violation of regulations made under the Principal Ordinance.

Clause 16 enables the Governor-in-Council to add to or remove from Schedule A of the Principal Ordinance any article declared to be a poison.

Clause 17 provides alternative and more drastic penalties for concealing or selling poisons as defined or for violating any regulation made as to the possession, importa- tion or exportation of such poisons.

F. A. HAZELand,

Attorney General.

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance further to amend the Merchant

Shipping Ordinance, 1899.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

struction.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Merchant Ship- Short title ping Further Amendment Ordinance, 1910, and shall be and con- read and construed as one with the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, (hereinafter called "the Principal Ordin- ance") and this Ordinance and the said Ordinance and the Ordinances amending the same may be cited together as the Merchant Shipping Ordinances, 1899-1910.

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2. Section 41 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Application amended by the addition, after the word England" in of Acts here- line six, of the words "so far as the provisions of those after passed

amending Acts are not or shall not be inconsistent with the provi- the Merchant sions of this Ordinance".

Shipping

Act 1894.

Memorandum.

By Ordinance No. 9 of 1909 section 41 was amended by declaring that Acts hereafter passed amending the Mer- chant Shipping Act 1894 shall be in force in the Colony.

It is desirable that the Principal Ordinance be further amended by declaring that the said Acts shall be in force in the Colony only if they are not inconsistent with the provisions of the Principal Ordinance.

F. A. HAZELAND, Attorney General.