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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 6,

The export

drugs.

1935.

(d) cocaine (including synthetic cocaine) and ecgonine and their respective salts, and the esters of ecgonine and their respective salts;

(e) any solution or dilution of morphine or cocaine or their salts in an inert substance whether liquid or solid, containing any proportion of morphine or cocaine, and any preparation, admixture, extract or other substance (not being such a solution or dilution as aforesaid) containing not less than one-fifth per cent. of morphine or one-tenth per cent of cocaine or of ecgonine;

extract or other (f) any preparation, admixture, substance containing any proportion of diacetylmorphine;

(g) dihydrohydroxycodeinone, dihydrocodeinone, dihy- dromorphinone, acetyldihydrocodeinone, dihydromorphine, their esters and the salts of any of these substances and of

known their esters, morphine-N-oxide (commonly genomorphine). the morphine-N-oxide derivatives and any other pentavalent nitrogen morphine derivatives;

as

(h) thebaine and its salts, and (with the exception of methylmorphine, commonly known as codeine, and ethylmor- phine, commonly known as dionin, and their respective salts) benzylmorphine and the other ethers of morphine and their respective salts;

(i) any preparation, admixture, extract or other substance containing any proportion of any of the substances mentioned in paragraph (g) or in paragraph (h) of this sub-section.

(j) coca leaves.

(2) For the purposes of sub-section (1) the expression "ecgonine" means laevo-ecgonine and includes any derivatives of ecgonine from which it may be recovered industrially, and the percentage in the case of morphine shall be calculated as in respect of anhydrous morphine.

(3) For the purposes of this section, percentages in the case of liquid preparations shall, unless other provision in that behalf is made by regulations under this Ordinance. be calculated on the basis that a preparation containing one per cent. of any substance means a preparation in which one gramme of the substance, if a solid, or one millilitre of the substance, if a liquid, is contained in every one hundred millilitres of the preparation, and so in proportion of any greater or less percentage.

(4) If it appears to the Governor in Council that any other derivative of morphine or cocaine or of any salts of morphine or cocaine or any other alkaloid of opium or any other drug of whatever kind is, or is likely to be, productive, if improperly used, or is capable of being converted into a substance which is, or is likely to be, productive, if improperly used, of ill effects substantially of the same character or nature, as or analogous to those produced by morphine or cocaine, he may by order declare that this Ordinance shall apply to that other derivative or alkaloid or other drug in the same manner as it applies to the drugs mentioned in sub- section (1).

4. (1) Upon the production of an import certificate of dangerous duly issued by the competent authority in any country, it shall be lawful for the Superintendent to issue an export authorization, in the form В set out in the Schedule hereto, in respect of any drug referred to in the import certificate, to any person who is named as the exporter in such certificate, and is, under the provisions of this Ordinance, otherwise lawfully

Schedule. form B.

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