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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 14, 1913.

No. 44.

Resolution made by the Legislative Council under Section 3 of the Opium Ordinance, 1909, (Ordinance No. 23 of 1909), as amended by Section 2 of the Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1911, (Ordinance No. 39 of 1911), this 13th day of February, 1913.

Whereas by the provisions of Section 3 of the Opium Ordinance, 1909, as amended by Section 2 of the Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1911, it is provided as follows:-

"No person shall import, or aid or abet the importation of any raw opium into the Colony or into the waters thereof, if such importation shall have been notified in the Gazette in pursuance of any resolution of the Legislative Council as being illegal."

It is therefore hereby resolved that a Notification shall be made in the next issue of the Government Gazette that the importation of raw Turkish Opium is illegal.

No. 45.

Resolution made by the Legislative Council under Section 3 of the Opium Ordinance, 1909, (Ordinance No. 23 of 1909); as amended by Section 2 of the Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1911, (Ordinance No. 39 of 1911), this 13th day of February, 1913.

Whereas by the provisions of Section 3 of the Opium Ordinance, 1909, as amended by Section 2 of the Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1911, it is provided as follows:-

"No person shall import, or aid or abet the importation of any raw opium into the Colony or into the waters thereof, if such importation shall have been notified in the Gazette in pursuance of any resolution of the Legislative Council as being illegal."

And Whereas by a resolution dated the 31st August, 1911, and made by the Legisla- tive Council in pursuance of the provisions of Section 3 of the Opium Ordinance, 1909, as amended by Section 2 of the Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1911, and published in the Gazette of the 1st September, 1911, it was resolved that a Notification should be made in the following issue of the Government Gazette that the importation of any kind of raw Indian Opium except opium covered by Export Permits from the Government of India to the effect that it had been declared for shipment to or consumption in China was illegal.

It is therefore hereby resolved that a Notification shall be made in the next issue of the Government Gazette that the above recited Resolution shall not apply to the trans-shipment in Hongkong of raw Indian Opium exported from China by the Chinese Maritime Customs to a port to which it is lawful to export the same.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

13th February, 1913.

A. G. M. FLETCHER, Clerk of Councils.