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(2) No person shall aid, abet, counsel or procure any such sale, purchase, smoking or possession.

15.-(1) No person shall open or keep an opium divan. Opium

(2) No person shall smoke opium in any opium divan.

divans and smoking therein prohibited.

Presump-

tions (1) as

16.-(1) Where two or more persons are found smoking opium in any place, such persons not being residents in to opium the said place, it shall, until the contrary is proved, be divans, (2) presumed-

(a) that the said place is an opium divan; and

(b) that the tenant or occupier of the said place is keep- ing the said place as an opium divan, provided that such tenant or occupier or a servant of such tenant or occupier is present at the time of the finding of such persons.

(2) Every person found in any opium divan or found escaping there from on the occasion of its being entered under this Ordinance shall, until the contrary is proved, be presumed to be or to have been smoking opium therein.

as to

smoking opium in an opium divan,

possession

17.—(1) No person shall, without lawful authority or Unlawful excuse, have in his possession, except attached to a recep- of Govern- tacle issued by the Superintendent and

and containing ment opium Government prepared opium, any label or wrapper of a kind labels and used by the Superintendent for affixing to receptacles con- taining Government prepared opium, or any portion of any such label or wrapper.

(2) No person shall, without lawful authority or excuse, have in his possession, except attached to a receptacle issued by the Superintendent and containing the full quantity of Government prepared opium contained therein at the time of issue, any label or wrapper of a kind used by the Super- intendent for affixing to receptacles containing Government prepared opium, unless such label or wrapper has been broken in such a way as to make it impracticable to use the label or wrapper again.

wrappers.

etc.,

Government

18.-(1) No person shall, without lawful authority or Possession excuse, have in his possession any label, wrapper, or mark, of labels, so resembling any label, wrapper, or mark used by the resembling Superintendent in connexion with Government prepared opium labels, opium as to constitute a colourable imitation thereof, or have and dies, in his possession any die, block, or type apparently intended for the production of any such label, wrapper, or mark.

(2) For the purposes of this section, "label", "wrap- per", "mark", "die", "block" and "type" shall be deemed respectively to include any portion of a label, wrapper, mark, die, block or type.

production of

etc.. for the

such labels, etc.

Government

19. No person shall mix anything with prepared opium Counter- with the intention of causing it to be believed that such feiting prepared opium is Government prepared opium, or shall opium pre- counterfeit any mark used by the Superintendent to denote distinctive that the prepared opium contained in any receptacle is marks Government prepared opium, or shall use as genuine any thereon,

such mark.