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SUPERINTENDENT'S CERTIFICATE

[s. 10.]

DANGEROUS DRUGS ORDINANCE, 1932.

1,

(Assistant) Superintendent of

Imports and Exports, hereby certify that on (date)

I received personally from (name or description of officer)

a sealed packet

case may be marked (if any special mark)

which I found to contain (quantity and nature of drug).

and that on (date)

(quantity and nature of drug)

description of officer)

the case may be)

(or as the

I personally handed the said

to (name and

in a sealed packet (or as

marked (if any special mark)...

Date

(Assistant )Superintendent of

Imports and Exports.

Objects and Reasons.

""

1. In 1931 a conference was held at Geneva for the purpose of supplementing the provisions of the International Opium Convention, known as "The Hague Convention, signed at the Hague on the 23rd January, 1912, and of the International Opium Convention, known as "The Geneva Convention (No. 1)", signed at Geneva on the 19th February, 1925.

2. As a result of the conference, a convention, for the purpose aforesaid and known as "The Geneva Convention (No. 2)", was signed at Geneva on behalf of His Majesty on the 13th July, 1951.

3. By Article 11 of the Geneva Convention (No. 2) it is provided that in the event of the Health Committee of the League of Nations, after consulting the Permanent Committee of the Office International d'Hygiene Publique in Paris, deciding that any product obtained from any of the phenanthrene alkaloids of opium or from the ecgonine alkaloids of the coca leaf, (not being a product which was on the 15th July, 1931, being used for medical or scientific purposes) is, or can be converted into, a drug capable of producing addiction, the Health Committee should notify the Secretary-General of the League of Nations of their decision. The Secretary-General was required to communicate the