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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 1, 1911.

No. 258. His Excellency the Governor has given his assent, in the name and on behalf of His Majesty the King, to the following Ordinances passed by the Legislative

Council:-

Ordinance No. 39 of 1911.-An Ordinance to further amend the Opium Ordinance,

1909.

Ordinance No. 40 of 1911.-An Ordinance to enable Joseph Horsford Kemp Esquire, Barrister-at-law, to practise as Crown Solicitor in the Court and to provide for the payment of solicitors' costs in cases in which a salaried C

Crown Solicitor or Assistant Crown Solicitor acts as solicitor.

Short title.

Amends Ordinance

No.23 of 1909 as amended! by Ordin

auces Nos. 11

and 33 of 1910.

Restriction on import of raw opium.

Penalty clause of Ordinance No. 23 of 1909 to apply

to new see-

tion 3.

HONGKONG.

No. 39 of 1911.

An Ordinance to further amend the Opium Or-

dinance. 1909.

LS

F. D. LUGARD,

Governor.

[31st August, 1911.]

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

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Opium Amend- ment Ordinance, 1911.

2. The Opium Ordinance, 1909, as amended by the Opinn Amendment Ordinance, 1910, and by the Opium Amendment (No. 2) Ordinance, 1910, is hereby further amended by the repeal of section thereof and by the substitution therefor of the following section :~-

"3.—(1.) No person shall import, or aid or abet the importation of any raw opium into the Colony or into the waiers thereof, if such importation shall have been notified in the Gazette in pur- suance of any resolution of the Legislative Council as being illegal.

(2.) The provisions of sub-section (1) of this section shall not apply to opium imported by or for the use of the Opium Farmer with the written con- sent of the Superintendent of Imports and Ex- ports previously obtained, and further shall not apply to opium brought into the Colony or into the waters thereof on any steamship under a Bill of Lading to some place to which such opium may by the laws of such place be Jawfully imported provided that such opium shall not be removed from such steamship whilst in the waters of the Colony.

(3.) No person shall import, or aid or abet the importation of any loose opium into the Colony or into the waters thereof."

3. The reference in section 8 (1) of the Opium Ordin- anee, 1909, to section 3 thereof shall be deemed to be u reference to the new section 3 substituted by this Ordin-

ance.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 31st day of August, 1911.

C. CLEMENTI,

Clerk of Councils.

Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 31st day of August, 1911.

WARREN BARNES,

Colonial Secretary.