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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 26, 1912.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

No. 15.

Regulations made by the Governor-in-Council on the 18th day of January, 1912, under Section 51 of the Opium Ordinance, 1909, (Ordinance No. 23 of 1909).

1. The Conditions of Licence for Importing for sale or use within the Colony, Prepar- ing, Manufacturing, or Dealing in Morphine and Compounds of Opium determined by Regulations made by the Governor-in-Council on the 1st day of March, 1910, and published in the Gazette on the 4th day of March, 1910, and on pages 591 and 592 of the Regulations of Hongkong, 1910, as amended by the Regulations made by the Officer Administering the Government in Council on the 13th day of October, 1910, and published by Government Notifications Nos. 323 and 324 in the Gazette on the 14th day of October, 1910, are hereby revoked and there shall be substituted therefor the following:

Conditions of Licence for Importing for sale or use within the Colony, Preparing, Manufacturing or Dealing in Morphine and Compounds of Opium.

1. Except to a duly qualified medical practitioner or to a chemist or druggist registered under the Pharmacy Ordinance, 1908, or to a duly qualified licenciate of the Hongkong College of Medicine or to a person approved by the Governor under section 11 (3) (c) or (d) of the said Ordinance the licensee shall not supply Morphine or any Compound of Opium to any person unless it has been prescribed by some duly qualified medical practi- tioner or by a duly qualified licenciate of the Hongkong College of Medicine or by any such approved person Provided that nothing in this condition shall be deemed to affect the supply by the licensee of any medicine contain- ing morphine or opium or any compound of opium which shall have been exempted by the Governor-in-Council from the provisions of section 49 of the Opium Ordinance, 1909, under the powers conferred by section 56 thereof as amended by section 5 of the Opium Amendment Ordinance,

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2. The licensee shall keep a book of certificates with counterfoils numbered con- secutively and shall give to each duly qualified medical practitioner or duly qualified licenciate or person approved as aforesaid or registered chemist or druggist to whom he supplies any morphine or compound of opium a cer- tificate containing the particulars set forth in Schedule B to the Pharmacy Ordinance, 1908, and shall enter the same particulars in the counterfoil. 3. Where the licensee supplies any morphine or compound of opium on the pre- scription of some duly qualified medical practitioner or of any duly quali- fied licenciate of the Hongkong College of Medicine or of any such person approved as aforesaid the bottle, package or other receptacle in which it is supplied shall be labelled by the licensee with the name and address of the seller and the licensee shall enter particulars of the ingredients and the name and address of the person to whom it is supplied in the book referred to in the proviso to section 11 of the Pharmacy Ordinance, 1958.

4. The licensee shall enter in a stock book, a description of, and the quantity and weight of, and the date of receipt of, all morphine and compounds of opium received by him, and shall pay such royalty as may be due to the Opium Farmer in respect thereof.

5. If the licensee be absent from the Colony for any period of more than seven days duration he shall forfeit his licence unless he has notified to the Principal Civil Medical Officer his intention of so being absent and unless the Principal Civil Medical Officer has in writing approved the appointment of a substitute who shall act for him and who shall for all purposes be The licensee shall on return- treated as the licensee during such absence.

ing to the Colony notify the Principal Civil Medical Officer in writing of his return thereto.

6. The premises and books of the licensee shall at all times during business hours be open to the inspection of the Government Officer appointed in that be- half by the Governor and also of any representative of the Opium Farmer.