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decision to the parties to the Convention, who undertook to apply to that product the measures of control specified in the Convention.

4. Article 30 of the Geneva Convention (No. 2) provides that the Convention shall not come into force until ninety days after the secretary-General has received the number of ratifications or accessions therein specified.

5. The existing law of the Colony relating to dangerous drugs is contained mainly in the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance No. 9 of 1916, and the Regulations thereunder and in the Dangerous Drugs Ordinances, No. 22 of 1923 and No. 4 of 1928, and the Regulations thereunder.

6. As a result of the Geneva Convention (No. 2) it became necessary in England to pass, on the 24th March this year, the Dangerous Drugs Act, 1932, amending the Dangerous Drugs Act, 1920, the Dangerous Drugs and Poisons (Amendment) Act, 1923, and the Dangerous Drugs Act, 1925, on which the local legislation is mainly founded.

7. Consequently it becomes necessary to amend the two local Dangerous Drugs Ordinances. This Ordinance therefore consolidates Ordinances No. 22 of 1923 and No. 4 of 1928 with amendments suggested by the Dangerous Drugs Act, 1952, and by the Secretary of State's Circular Despatch of the 22nd July, 1932.

August, 1932.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.