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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. S. 446.—The following Bills were read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 10th November, 1932 :-

(C.S.O. 1 in 4299/32).

A BILL

[No. 44-6.10.32.-1.]

Short title.

Amendment

of Ordinance No. 7 of

1932, s. 10.

Amendment

of Ordinance No. 7 of

1932, s. 13.

Amendment

of Ordinance No. 7 of 1932, s. 13.

Amendment

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Opium Ordinance, 1932.

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

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Opium Amend- ment Ordinance, 1932.

2. Section 10 of the Opium Ordinance, 1932, is amended by the addition of the following proviso at the end thereof :-

"Provided that such power of appointment is to be exercised only where local circumstances make the establish- ment of Government opium shops difficult.'

3. Sub-section (2) of section 13 of the Opium Ordin- ance, 1932, is amended by the deletion of the words "or a passenger holding a permit under section 20.”

4. The following sub-section is added at the end of section 13 of the Opium Ordinance, 1932:—

(3) No prepared opium or opium dross shall be sold or purchased otherwise than for cash.

5. The proviso to section 20 of the Opium Ordinance, of Ordinance 1932, is repealed.

No. 7 of

1932, s. 20.

Amendment

of Ordinance

No. 7 of

.1932, s. 22.

6. Section 22 of the Opium Ordinance, 1932, is amended by the deletion of the words "other than the prepared opium specified in the proviso to section 20),”

Objects and Reasons.

1. In Article I of the Opium Agreement signed at Bangkok on the 27th of November, 1931, it was provided that the retail sale and distribution of opium should take place only from Government shops or, where local circumstances make the establishment of Government shops difficult, from shops managed under Government supervision, by persons appointed by the Government for that purpose and remunerated by a fixed payment and not by a commission on sales.