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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
No. S. 247.-The following Bill was read a first time at meeting of the Council held on the 22nd June, 1933-
(C.S.O. 1/4299/32).
A BILL.
[No. 18.-29.5.33.-2.]
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Short title.
Substitution for Ordin- ance No. 7
of 1932,
s. 13, as amended by Ordinance No. 36 of
1932.
Sale and possession of prepared opium and sale of
dross.
Amendment of Ordin- ance No. 7 of 1932,
s. 15,
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend the law relating to Opium.
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, 1933.
2. Section 13 of the Opium Ordinance, 1932, as amended by the Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1932. is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :--
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13.-(1) No person except the Superintendent or person appointed by him under section 10 shall sell or offer or expose for sale any prepared opium.
(2) No person except the Superintendent or a person appointed by him under section 10 shall have in his possession more than five taels of prepared opium.
(3) No prepared opium shall be sold or purchased other- wise than for cash.
(4) Except in the case of sales to the Superintendent, no person shall purchase, sell or expose for sale any opium dross.
3. Section 15 of the Opium Ordinance, 1932, is amended by the addition of the following sub-section at the end thereof:
(3) No person being the owner or occupier of any premises, or having, or acting or assisting in, the management or control thereof, shall knowingly suffer any person to use the same as an opium divan.
Objects and Reasons
1. Under Article 5 of the Agreement concerning the Manufacture of, the Internal Trade in, and the Use of Prepared Opium, which was signed at Geneva on the 11th February, 1925, His Majesty's Government undertook to prohibit the purchase and sale of dross except when the dross is sold to the Monopoly.
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